Alphabet’s drone delivery company, Wing, said Monday that it plans to begin delivering packages to homes in the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months, bringing the service to one of the company’s earliest testing grounds.
The company did not say exactly where in the Bay Area it will launch or which retail or restaurant partners will be involved. It said residents can sign up for updates as the rollout approaches.
Wing was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 inside Alphabet’s X division, the Google parent company’s experimental projects division.
It is now trying to expand drone delivery as a solution to “last-mile” logistics — the final leg of delivery that brings groceries, meals or household goods directly to a customer’s home and is often one of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of the process.
Wing already operates in a handful of U.S. markets, including Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, where it delivers Walmart groceries and household essentials, as well as restaurant orders through partnerships with DoorDash. Wing said it has completed more than 750,000 deliveries and serves more than 2 million customers.
The Bay Area expansion comes as drone delivery activity has been slowly building in San Francisco. Last year, DoorDash leased a warehouse in the Mission District for research and development related to autonomous delivery, including possible drone testing.
Wing has also been testing systems that combine ground and air delivery. In a pilot launched in 2024 with Serve Robotics, sidewalk robots picked up food from restaurants and transferred the orders to Wing drones for the final aerial portion of the trip.
Wing said the service is built for small, local deliveries, with some orders arriving in less than 30 minutes. The company also noted that drone delivery could help reduce road traffic by moving some short trips out of cars and into the air.