MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Some Bay Area residents could soon call on drones to make deliveries to their homes.
Wing, a company by Google, announced Monday it will scale its drone delivery service to the Bay Area in the coming months. It’s unclear exactly when people will be able to request drone delivery or what Bay Area neighborhoods will be included in the launch.
Wing called the decision meaningful as the company was established via Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory. The first drone delivery in the Bay Area was also conducted at Google’s Mountain View campus more than a decade ago.
Now, after safely completing over 750,000 deliveries in other metropolitan cities in the United States, Wing says the drone service is ready to serve the Bay Area.
“From its founding, the Wing team recognized a global problem: that traditional last-mile delivery remained fundamentally slow, expensive, and inefficient for small, urgent, and local orders,” Wing said in a statement. “Wing chose to solve the hardest problem first, designing drone technology that would safely fly small packages directly to homes in dense residential areas.”
Wing partners its delivery service with Walmart and DoorDash, creating “an entirely new logistics infrastructure focused on transporting small orders directly to consumers.”
“With lightweight, highly automated drones, Wing takes the hassle out of small deliveries, so customers can get their last-minute ingredients, small household items, and meals without sitting in traffic,” according to Wing. ” It’s a groundbreaking service added to a region that prides itself on using groundbreaking technology.”