Wing’s drones are coming back home.
As part of its nationwide expansion, the Alphabet company is scaling its ultra-fast residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California, USA, in the coming months.
“This is a particularly meaningful market for Wing, as the company was established in the Bay Area via Google’s X, the Moonshot Factory in 2012,” the company said in a statement.
“From its founding, the Wing team recognised a global problem: that traditional last-mile delivery remained fundamentally slow, expensive, and inefficient for small, urgent, and local orders.
“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 first introduced drone delivery in the Bay Area in Google’s Mountain View campus, quickly delivering items like supplies to offices across the campus in real time.
The pilot demonstrated the convenience and speed of drone delivery to the Google community, and it wasn’t long before questions started gathering a storm on when people could start getting drone delivery into their own homes.
The positive feedback only reinforced Wing’s commitment to eventually expand its service to more neighborhoods throughout the Bay.
To date, Wing has completed over 750,000 deliveries to homes, with a service area covering more than two million customers across some of the largest metros in the US, including Houston, Atlanta, and Dallas.
