Wing will this Thursday launch a commercial drone delivery service in a major US metropolitan area, a first for the Alphabet-owned startup.
The company was spun out of X, Google's moonshot lab, in 2018 to build and operate a drone-delivery business. Since then, Wing has set up operations in Helsinki, Finland, and Canberra, Australia to bring shoppers all sorts of items, from biscuits to burgers, to their doors. It also operates in the US in Christiansburg, Virginia, and is expanding to its first urban area within the country this week: the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
A Wing drone ... Image credit: Wing. Click to enlarge
"We're going to be starting small in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, with service to tens of thousands of suburban homes in the City of Frisco and Town of Little Elm," the upstart announced on Monday.
Over the next few months, residents in certain neighborhoods within those areas will be invited to start placing deliveries via Wing's smartphone app. "Not everyone who lives within range of our drones will be able to order on Day 1. We're going to invite customers in groups to make sure everyone has a good first experience with drone delivery," the biz confirmed.
People living in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex region will eventually be able to order products from Walgreens, ice cream from Blue Bell Creameries, pet medications from easyvet, and first-aid kits from Texas Health.
Wing's drones each have a metre-long wingspan, weigh 5.2kg, and are powered by rechargeable electric batteries. Each device also carries black and white cameras. They're capable of flying at s ..
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