Last-Mile Delivery News
Latest Last-Mile Delivery news and analysis — 31 articles tagged Last-Mile Delivery on The Robotics Media.
- Amazon Drones Drop Packages Where 10 State Laws Say They Cannot — — Amazon’s Prime Air MK30 is the only U.S. delivery drone that releases packages in flight — a method banned or permit-restricted in at least 10 states...
- Zipline In Talks For $1B Round At $20B As Part 108 Rule Sits Idle — — Instant-logistics operator Zipline is reportedly negotiating a $1 billion raise that would nearly triple its valuation to $20 billion, even as the FAA...
- Amazon Files Portland Drone Hub In A State That Fought FAA Review — — Amazon has filed a pre-application for its first Prime Air drone-delivery center in Oregon, staking out a Portland site for MK30 launches even after t...
- DroneXL Launches Public Tracker Of Every US Amazon, Wing And Zipline Delivery Drone Hub — — DroneXL launched a public Drone Delivery Tracker mapping 40 Amazon Prime Air hubs, 368 Wing nests, five Zipline authorizations and eight incidents, wi...
- Robot.com And Sodexo Sign Seven-Year Deal, R-Dog Joins Campus Delivery Fleet — — Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot) landed a seven-year commercial contract with Sodexo Group, its largest single enterprise deployment to date. R-Dog, a pac...
- Amazon Prime Air Plans 500 US Drone Delivery Cities By End Of 2026 — — Amazon says its MK30 drones will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns this year, a sixfold expansion of Prime Air's current 11-metro footprint.
- Uber, Zipline Target 1 Million Daily Drone Deliveries By 2029 — — Uber and Zipline announced a strategic partnership on August 17, 2026 to bring autonomous drone delivery into Uber Eats, with a shared goal of one mil...
- Amazon Prime Air Prepares Drone Delivery For Greater Richmond, Virginia — — Amazon Prime Air is preparing to launch autonomous MK30 drone delivery across Henrico County, greater Richmond and Hanover County in central Virginia.
- Amazon Plots Sixfold Prime Air Expansion To Nearly 500 US Cities By Year End — — Amazon is preparing to widen Prime Air drone delivery from 11 metro areas to nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold footprint ex...
- Uber Invests in Zipline for Uber Eats Drone Deliveries, Targets 1M/Day by 2029 — — Uber and Zipline are taking Uber Eats airborne. The two announced a strategic partnership and undisclosed Uber investment, with the first drone delive...
- Serve Robotics Adds Grubhub, Expands DoorDash To DC And San Jose — — Serve Robotics announced its first partnership with Wonder-owned Grubhub, launched sidewalk delivery in Washington DC and San Jose with DoorDash, and...
- Amazon Prime Air MK30 Drones To Debut Over Metro Atlanta From Stone Mountain Hub — — Amazon will launch Prime Air drone delivery in metro Atlanta later this year from a Stone Mountain fulfillment center, promising one-hour drops across...
- Walmart And Wing Fire Up Central Florida Drone Delivery Over 50,000 Homes — — Walmart's drone-delivery partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing went live in Central Florida on July 29, covering more than 50,000 homes across Apopka a...
- Flytrex And Nash Fuse Drones With Gig Couriers For An Autonomous-First Delivery Stack In Dallas-Fort Worth — — The drone operator and orchestration platform now route every DFW order to whichever mode is fastest — Flytrex quadcopters first, Nash's on-demand cou...
- Wing And Walmart Take Nation's Largest Drone Delivery Network Into Florida — — Alphabet's Wing and Walmart flew their first Florida drone deliveries on July 29, opening Wing's first market in the state from two Orlando-area Super...
- Wing And Walmart Double Houston Drone Delivery With Eight New Stores — — Wing and Walmart added eight Walmart Supercenters to their Greater Houston drone delivery network on July 8, more than doubling the footprint and putt...
- Wonder and Zipline Team Up To Fly Restaurant Meals Across Texas — — Wonder is bringing Bobby Flay, Marcus Samuelsson and Di Fara Pizza to Texas skies via Zipline's Platform 2 drones, with Dallas going live in January 2...
- BayCare Taps Zipline to Build Tampa Bay Healthcare Drone Network — — BayCare and Zipline will build a healthcare drone delivery network across West Central Florida, launching in the St. Petersburg–Clearwater area in lat...
- Wonder Taps Zipline to Bring Drone-Delivered Meals to Texas — — Food technology platform Wonder will use Zipline's autonomous drones to deliver meals from its Texas locations starting January 2027, beginning in Dal...
- Zipline Adds Austin as Texas Drone Delivery Push Accelerates — — Zipline will launch autonomous drone delivery in Austin later this year, its third Texas market in under twelve months, backed by $800M in fresh fundi...