A delivery drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to transport items such as packages, medicines, food, postal mail, and other light goods. Large corporations like Amazon, DHL, and FedEx have started to use drone delivery services. Drones were used effectively in the fight against COVID-19, delivering millions of vaccines and medical supplies across the globe. Drone deliveries are highly efficient, significantly speeding up delivery times and avoiding challenges traditional delivery vehicles may encounter. Given their life-saving potential, use cases for medical supplies in particular have become the most widely tested type of drone delivery, with trials and pilot projects in dozens of countries such as Australia, Canada, Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, the UK, the US among others (see below).
Delivery drones can be autonomous, semi-autonomous, or remote-controlled. The most common types of drones are terrestrial and aerial, however, they can also be aquatic.
