Zipline has been working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on small-scale pilot projects over the past year or so to prove out the drone delivery concept, but progress has been slow. Now, though, COVID-19 has put enough additional stress on the U.S. health care system that the FAA has granted an emergency waiver to the Part 107 drone rules to allow North Carolina–based Novant Health to partner with Zipline on a beyond-line-of-sight autonomous drone delivery service through controlled airspace—the first of its kind in the United States.

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