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Drone food delivery is taking off, but research reveals it’s junk food that’s flying high

- July 28, 2024 3 MIN READ

Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city’s eastern suburbs can now order food from cafes and restaurants via the DoorDash app and have it brought to them in minutes by a small aircraft. This is the… Read more »

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Want sushi from a shopping centre? There’s a drone for that

- April 20, 2023 2 MIN READ

Alphabet’s experimental drone delivery service, Wing, is branching out from delivering supermarket groceries in Queensland to meal delivery in a partnership with DoorDash.  The two tech companies have team up with property giant Mirvac to launch drone delivered meals from food retailers signed up on DoorDash from Orion Springfield Central shopping centre in Ipswich. The… Read more »

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Queens of the Drone Age: It’s time to take a closer look at the true costs of Google’s Wing and airborne delivery

- October 9, 2021 5 MIN READ

  Drone delivery company Wing recently celebrated 100,000 deliveries with an unusual burst of media fanfare. Australia is at the forefront of Wing’s plans, with the company’s two biggest trial sites running in Canberra and Logan in Queensland. Wing tells a simple story of barista coffee and roast chooks dropped on your driveway at a… Read more »