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'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 ...

Secures New FAA Authorization for Commercial Operation of Largest Ever UAS and Takes Order for 20 Aircraft in Brazil ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pyka, a leader in autonomous electric ...

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ALAMEDA, Calif., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyka, industry leader in commercial large autonomous electric aircraft, announced today that it has finalized an order for 60 Pelican aircraft from ...

ALAMEDA, Calif., Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyka, a robotics company building mission-ready autonomous aircraft for agriculture, logistics, defense, and humanitarian operations, has established a ...

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 ...

Autonomous electric aviation startup Pyka is working hard to scale up its crop-dusting and cargo plane lines, but it has attracted a lucrative new suitor: the Pentagon. The promise of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electric airplane maker Pyka is close to leasing a 106,000-square-foot former hangar at Alameda Point. The autonomous aircraft startup based in Oakland is negotiating a deal with the City of Alameda ...