Alphabet’s Wing is bringing its drone delivery service to Dallas-Fort Worth
Drones will soon be buzzing overhead in Dallas-Fort Worth, bearing small containers filled with Tylenol and Band-Aids. Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is bringing its drone delivery service to the Texas city, its first densely populated market.
Wing is starting small, making deliveries from just one Walgreens to the city of Frisco and town of Little Elm. The company says it will be utilizing its new operational model, in which small shipping containers parked next to the store act as tiny hangers from which Wing's drones will be deployed. Walgreens employees, rather than Wing technicians, will be trained in how to attach the packages to the company's drones.
Drone deliveries were supposed to revolutionize the...