UPS And CyPhy Works Test Drone For Urgent Commercial Delivery
The drone flight advances an investment made by The UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund in CyPhy to gather information about drone uses and capabilities. Innovation through automation and robotics has long been a focus for the world’s largest package delivery company. “Drone technology used in this way can save lives and deliver products and services to places that are difficult to reach by traditional transit infrastructures.”The CyPhy drone used in Thursday’s test is the Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) system. UPS and CyPhy flew the PARC from Beverly to Children’s Island