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Alphabet’s Wing announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its partnership with DoorDash to bring drone delivery to customers in the the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Customers in the area will now be able to order food from 50 merchants located in Stonebriar Centre in Frisco and Hulen Mall in Fort Worth.
Wing says its drones can “deliver items and meals to doorsteps in as little as 15 minutes.” The drones can navigate to the customer’s residence at a speed of 65 mph and a cruising height of about 150 feet.
When customers with an eligible address in Dallas-Fort Worth go to place an order in the DoorDash app, they now will see the option to have their food delivered by drone. You can check if you have an eligible address on Wing’s website. Wing notes that smaller orders are more likely to be eligible for drone delivery, and that your order may be delivered by more than one drone if all of your items can’t fit on a single one.
Wing and DoorDash launched their drone delivery pilot in the U.S. in March, giving customers in Christiansburg, Virginia the option to order food from their local Wendy’s. Wing has operated in the U.S. since 2019.
DoorDash first partnered with Wing back in 2022 when the two companies launched drone deliveries in Australia. Wing has completed more than 400,000 commercial deliveries worldwide.
“Wing’s partnership with DoorDash is guided by the shared goal of providing customers with the convenience and speed of air deliveries for the local products and brands they know and love,” the company wrote in a press release.
It’s worth noting that Wing also has drone deliver partnerships with other companies in the U.S., including Walmart and Walgreens.
Aisha is a consumer news reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining the publication in 2021, she was a telecom reporter at MobileSyrup. Aisha holds an honours bachelor’s degree from University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from Western University.
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