Drone explosion: Cargo UP, air taxi DOWN

NEXT with John Koetsier · Jan 27, 2022 · 14m

Have you taken a flying Uber yet? We're in the middle of a flight revolution.

In the past two years, there's been $5 billion of investment in personal drones, multicopters, autonomous helicopters, and vectored thrust aircraft. 129 different companies are developing almost 170 different air taxi, cargo, vertical takeoff or landing craft. Many of these, 65%, are doing electrical power and 25% are going with hybrid power models.

So what's happening here? Why has investment almost 10X'd in a little over a decade? And why is cargo drones so hot, while air taxis are so cold?

In this episode of…