Matternet adds ANRA’s UTM tech to expand drone delivery [Video]

Matternet, a provider of urban delivery drone technology, recently partnered with ANRA Technologies, a developer of unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM). Matternet will integrate ANRA’s UTM capabilities with its software to manage fleets of drones.

This partnership follows Matternet’s recent launch of a drone delivery operation in Silicon Valley. It said this collaboration will help scale its drone networks as it progresses toward home deliveries. The home delivery service has also been piloted in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California.

“With our home delivery service now live in Silicon Valley, our focus is on expanding our operations to serve more communities,” Andreas Raptopoulos, founder and CEO of Matternet, said. “Working with ANRA Technologies provides us with additional UTM capabilities that will help us scale our delivery networks while maintaining the highest safety standards for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations in shared airspace. This supports our vision of deploying Matternet’s technology across every major urban …