After years of focus on winning FAA approval for beyond-line-of-sight flights and multi-drone piloting, drone delivery operators are now running into a different obstacle: local control over where drones can actually take off and land. Even as federal rules loosen, municipalities and private landowners retain authority over launch and landing sites, creating a patchwork of local restrictions that can limit service regardless of airspace clearance.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-07
Matternet has developed a new last-mile delivery system called M3, featuring a drone capable of carrying up to 11 pounds of cargo and cheaper, simplified dock stations. The company plans to deploy the system commercially in the second half of 2027, with food delivery—including fried chicken—cited as an early use case.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
Truemetrics, a Y Combinator-backed startup that maps courier delivery routes via smartphone data, is hiring a founder's associate to work directly with its two founders. The company says it is profitable, has surpassed €1.5M in annual recurring revenue, and sells to enterprise carriers including GLS, DPD, and PostNord across several European countries plus Qatar. The new hire would help run and scale the company's outbound sales engine as it targets growth from roughly €1M to €10M+.
ycombinator.com
· 2026-10-01
Logistics firm OneRail has launched OmniStar, a platform built with Nvidia's AI software that helps retailers quickly select the most efficient delivery option for each order. The company says the tool cuts routing decision time from about 20 minutes to roughly two and a half minutes by analyzing OneRail's proprietary delivery data at scale.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-01
AT&T filed a lawsuit against Charter on Friday, claiming Spectrum's marketing of its internet as 'fiber-powered' misleads customers who aren't actually getting a full fiber connection. Spectrum's network relies on fiber-optic lines for most of its infrastructure but typically switches to copper coaxial cable for the final stretch into homes, unlike true fiber providers that run fiber directly to the wall jack. The suit was filed in Dallas, a market where both companies compete heavily for broadband customers.
cnet.com
· 2026-08-28
Coco Robotics, founded in 2020 by two UCLA engineers, built small autonomous delivery vehicles to replace full-size cars for short restaurant delivery trips. The company says it now completes about 1,000 deliveries a day in Los Angeles and has surpassed 500,000 total deliveries across more than a million miles, with a Shake Shack regional manager singling out the robots as a standout courier.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-08-25
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