Drone-delivery leader Wing plans to launch its first service in a major U.S. metro area, with folks in Dallas able to order items from a range of businesses.
Up to now, the Alphabet-owned company has been trialing drone-delivery services in several cities in Australia and Finland, as well as the small community of Christiansburg, Virginia, with more than 130,000 commercial deliveries completed globally to date.
In another first, Wing says it will use the trial to test a “new model for drone delivery” where employees at each local business — beginning with Walgreens — will operate their own drone hub, loading up the flying machine themselves before sending it on its way, rather than wasting time transferring orders to a central hub some distance away.
“We want to make sure [our customers] understand that it’s safe, that it’s reliable, that it’s consistent — and that they’re going to enjoy a service they’ve never seen in their lives,” said Steven Yates, Wing’s U.S. operations manager.
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