Arrive AI, Modovolo Announce Partnership to Develop Autonomous Drone Delivery
Arrive AI and Modovolo have announced a partnership to develop autonomous drone deliveries using Modovolo’s Lift platform and Arrive AI’s Arrive Point stations.
Arrive AI (NASDAQ:ARAI) and Modovolo have announced a partnership to develop an autonomous package delivery system linking Modovolo’s Lift drone platform with Arrive AI’s Arrive Point delivery stations and Arrive OS software.
The companies are developing a process in which a drone would travel to a destination and lower a package into a secure, climate-assisted Arrive Point. The design is intended to avoid the need for a ground-based pilot, a person to handle the handoff or a package being left outside a customer’s property.
The integration is intended to create a repeatable transfer from the aircraft to the receiving station. The companies said potential uses include food, pharmacy orders, retail goods and other deliveries.
Modovolo’s Lift platform uses modular payload pods, RTK localisation and long flight endurance. Modovolo said it is beginning work on a winch prototype designed to support package delivery into an Arrive Point.
Arrive AI is contributing its Arrive Point stations and Arrive OS software. The company describes its platform as infrastructure for autonomous logistics, supporting drones, autonomous mobile robots, autonomous vehicles and human couriers in the exchange of goods.
The companies plan to progress from integration development to test-bed operations at Arrive AI’s headquarters. Those operations are expected to involve capability testing, personnel training and simulated real-world activity.
Following successful testing and subject to any required regulatory approvals, the companies plan to conduct live autonomous drone deliveries in a designated area in Fishers, Indiana. Under that plan, customers will be able to order food and have it delivered by air directly into an Arrive Point.
The source does not provide a date for the proposed Fishers deliveries. The planned deployment remains conditional on successful testing and any required regulatory approvals.
Arrive AI is building a network of intelligent delivery endpoints for the secure, asynchronous exchange of goods. Its stated areas of use include logistics, healthcare and enterprise delivery.
Modovolo is a U.S.-based drone manufacturer developing aircraft with interchangeable mission payloads. Its Lift platform has a standardised central payload bay intended to support different applications, including package delivery, military use and public safety. The company also uses large-format 3D printing and domestic manufacturing in its aircraft development.
Arrive AI announced a strategic partnership with Modovolo to develop an end-to-end autonomous drone delivery capability. The collaboration combines Modovolo’s modular Lift drone platform with Arrive AI’s Arrive Point™ delivery stations and Arrive OS software.
The partnership is intended to develop automated package delivery in which a drone flies to its destination and lowers a package into a secure, climate-assisted Arrive Point™. The companies are targeting a repeatable handoff from the air into the delivery station for food, pharmacy orders, retail goods and more.
Under the proposed system, a drone would fly itself to its destination and lower a package directly into an Arrive Point™, without a pilot on the ground, a human hand in the loop or a package left exposed on a doorstep. The system combines the drone’s flight platform with Arrive AI’s receiving stations and software.
Modovolo is contributing its modular Lift drone platform, which features modular payload pods, RTK localisation and long flight endurance. Modovolo said it is starting with a winch prototype to support package delivery into an Arrive Point™.
The integration is designed to support autonomous delivery of food, pharmacy orders, retail goods and more. Arrive AI said its platform supports drones, ground robotics and human couriers across logistics, healthcare and enterprise delivery.
The partnership will move from integration development to live test-bed operations at Arrive AI’s headquarters, where the teams will test the capability, train personnel and simulate real-world operations. Following successful testing and subject to any required regulatory approvals, the companies plan to conduct live autonomous drone deliveries in a designated area in Fishers, Indiana.
Following successful testing and subject to any required regulatory approvals, Arrive AI and Modovolo plan to conduct live autonomous drone deliveries in a designated area in Fishers, Indiana. The source says customers will be able to order food and have it delivered by air into an Arrive Point™, but does not provide a date for those deliveries.
The planned live autonomous drone deliveries are subject to any required regulatory approvals, as well as successful testing. The companies’ described next step is therefore conditional rather than a completed deployment.
Arrive AI is a physical AI and autonomous logistics infrastructure company building a network of intelligent delivery endpoints for the secure, asynchronous exchange of goods. Its platform is designed to enable drones, autonomous mobile robots, autonomous vehicles and human couriers to exchange goods.
Arrive AI’s shares trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ARAI, written in the source as NASDAQ:ARAI.