Skyports, the company behind air taxi infrastructure in cities like London and Paris, has completed a Series B funding round with backing from investors around the world.

A Silicon Valley drone startup and a Portuguese smart city tech provider have come up with a way of building drone infrastructure networks by retrofitting existing streetlights.

Royal Mail has announced the first out-of-sight autonomous drone flights between the UK mainland and an island, testing deliveries to the Isles of Scilly.

A new report from Connected Places Catapult explores the steps the UK has taken to be at the forefront of commercial drone development and identifies those yet to be taken to remain in the global race towards unmanned traffic management.

Jack Brown is real estate consultancy Hollis’ first unmanned aerial vehicle operator.

The construction company has created the new leadership role to help support its growing focus on tech and innovation, which the firm sees as a strategic necessity for the industry.

Alexandra Murphy, principal associate at Mills & Reeve, takes a look at the challenges drone deliveries present for the built environment.

The real estate consultancy, based in the UK, Ireland and Europe, has turned its eyes towards the future of the built environment, upping its surveying offer with a drone service, and taking the view property is now a data game.

A consortium is carrying out a feasibility study in Cornwall that could open up a UK source of the valuable material used in batteries and electric vehicles.