If it feels like all the drone delivery companies you’ve heard of are operating in Texas, your feeling is right. Texas may be the Lone Star State to most Americans. But to us, it’s also the Drone Star State. Six...
It’s been a rough year for DroneUp. In August 2024, news came out that DroneUp would end its drone delivery partnership with Walmart in three states: Arizona, Florida and Utah. With that, DroneUp job cuts occurred. The company laid off...
Not everything is rosy in the land of drone delivery. DroneUp, which is a U.S.-based drone delivery service backed by retail giant Walmart, announced significant layoffs and operational cutbacks. The DroneUp layoffs comes as the company faces challenges in financial...
The company perhaps most famous for delivering sandwiches from Jersey Mike’s and pizza from Little Caesars just crossed a milestone. Flytrex, which is a drone delivery company based in the U.S., just made its 100,000th drone delivery. The order at...
After more than five years of largely successful drone operations in the state of Queensland, Australia, Wing’s drone delivery operations are finally expanding to a different Australian state. Wing, the drone delivery arm affiliated with Google, announced in July 2024...
Amazon is working on launching a drone delivery service in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area. And this week, new details have emerged as to what exactly this Arizona Amazon drone delivery service will entail. On July 10, the Federal...
Here’s yet another sign that Walmart is increasingly committed to drone delivery. While Walmart has been offering drone delivery as a service at a handful of its stores (primarily in Texas), it wasn’t always the most intuitive for customers. A...
Zipline, which is generally considered the world leader in drone deliveries, has achieved a historic milestone: completing one million commercial drone deliveries to customers. The million delivery milestone occurred at 10:18 a.m. local time in Ghana (that’s 3:18 a.m. PT...
As drone delivery becomes more prevalent in the United States, some of your favorite restaurants are joining the trend. Among the biggest names? Wendy’s, which announced this month that it was teaming up with delivery giant DoorDash and Google-sibling drone...
Drone delivery in 2024 is hardly anything like the vision Jeff Bezos gave the world when he promised drone delivery on national TV back in 2013. A big reason? Lack of scalability. But a slew of major changes by drone...