Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area may soon get their meals, grocery items and over-the-counter drugs delivered by drone, with last-mile delivery company Wing announcing that it’s rolling out its drone delivery service to the region in the coming months in a blog post on Monday.
Wing — a last-mile drone delivery company under the umbrella of Alphabet, which also owns Google and driverless taxi service Waymo — describes the arrival of its aerial deliveries in the Bay Area as a “homecoming,” alluding to its fledgling years as a Google experimental X Labs “moonshot project” testing drone deliveries across Google’s Mountain View campus in 2012.
In 2018, Wing was spun off into an independent company and began making deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2022. It has since expanded operations to include deliveries in the Atlanta, Houston and Charlotte, North Carolina, markets, with plans to expand to more major cities that will
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