Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Bell, Yamato Team for On-demand UAS Package Delivery
The companies expect service to begin by mid-2020s.

Bell and Japan’s Yamato Holdings are collaborating on developing autonomous eVTOL systems that could be used for on-demand package delivery and large-scale logistics, they announced today, and they expect an initial “product” to enter service by the mid-2020s. For initial demonstrations, Bell will use its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) while Yamato will develop a detachable pod suitable for ground-handling. Yamato has provided logistics services for nearly 100 years.