60
Note: Boldface page numbers
indicate illustrations.
The Advanced Drone
Operations Toolkit (World
Economic Forum), 27
aircraft, incidents of drones
coming too close to, 42
Akufo-Addo, Nana, 48,
48
Alibaba, 26
altitude, restrictions on, 13
Amazon, 17–18, 43
cost of deliveries by, 7
drone used by, 36
ambulance drones, 50
Army, US, 54
Association for Unmanned
Vehicle Systems
International, 15
Australia, drone deliveries in,
29
automated external
defibrillators (AEDs), 53
autonomous, definition of,
14
Bezos, Jeff, 11–12,
12
blood delivery, 44–45, 46–47,
48
Canada, drone deliveries in,
31–32
Center for the Study of the
Drone, 59
certification, 15
China
drone deliveries in, 5–6,
21–25
use of drones in fighting
Covid-19 spread, 31
commercial drone pilots, 15
communicable, definition of,
49
Covid-19 pandemic, use of
drones in fighting, 31
critical-access hospital,
definition of, 51
Cui Zheng, 24
CVS Pharmacy,
39
Dada (website), 25
Defrance, Jean-Luc, 28
Delft University of Technology
(Netherlands), 50
delivery chains, 7
delivery drones,
6
,
23
accidents involving, 33–34
costs savings from, 7, 24
design/construction of, 38
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