Author: Tom Cassauwers

At the Las Matas train station in the town of Las Rozas, just north of the Spanish capital Madrid, life is going on as usual. The sound of a highway can be heard in the background as a train pulls in. On the roundabout in front of the station, a churros vendor is selling his wares as pedestrians navigate the busy intersection. It all seems like an ordinary scene in suburban Spain.Unseen by passers-by, however, smart cameras are quietly observing and analysing pedestrian and traffic flows to understand how the space is being used – and how it could be…

When brothers Svilen and Konstantin Rangelov first set up a small start-up called Dronamics in their native Bulgaria in 2014, their ambition was to democratise cargo deliveries in Europe and make affordable next-day delivery of packages a reality for even the remotest regions. Remote accessThey had spotted a major sticking point in the global trade system: the absence of rapid and reliable cargo transportation to less accessible parts of the world. This was a gap they believed drone cargo delivery could fill.“We set out to build a next-generation cargo aircraft so that we could help accelerate trade and enable same-day delivery for everyone everywhere,”…