Oakland-based aircraft manufacturer Pyka has unveiled its Pelican Cargo all-electric unmanned autonomous plane, which is the world’s first self-flying vehicle in its class and the largest ...

Clockwise from top left: Pyka’s Pelican Spray drone is the world’s largest ag spray drone currently. It’s spray boom features 20 nozzles on each side. Attendees hear from the Heinen Brothers during ...

Pyka, makers of Pelican Spray - a high-capacity, autonomous electric crop protection aircraft (shown above) - has announced Heinen Brothers Agra Services as the first entity to offer Pelican Spray in ...

Autonomous electric planemaker Pyka has developed the world's largest zero-emission freighter. The aircraft, known as Pelican Cargo, is pilotless and can carry up to 400 pounds across 200 miles.

Pyka's Pelican crop-spraying drone can carry more than its weight in chemicals and is designed to take off and land in 150 feet, half the length of a football field. Oakland-based Pyka shares a goal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It isn't easy getting a new plane certified and flying — let alone an autonomous one, and electric at that. But Pyka has done just ...

Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business with an ...

Pyka CEO Michael Norcia discusses the potential for the "Pelican," an autonomous electric plane designed for complex agricultural operations on farms. Norcia tells "The Claman Countdown" the goal is ...

Pyka appeared out of nowhere in 2019 with an unusual take on electric aircraft: a pilotless crop duster. The success of this first plane led the company to begin developing its next one, the P3: a ...

Pyka today announced the successful first flight of DropShip, its next-generation heavy-lift autonomous aircraft built for contested logistics and multi-mission operations. From concept to flight in ...

Pyka has leased a 110,000-square-foot industrial building at Alameda Point to serve as its headquarters and manufacturing plant. The Oakland-based autonomous aircraft startup inked an eight-year deal ...