Google launched drone delivery in Texas

At the end of October 2021, Google launched drone delivery to Texas. For this project, Google's daughter began collaborating with the Walgreens pharmacy chain.

Previously, Wing delivered goods mainly in parts of Australia and in small cities in the United States, where land use is less dense and complex. Drones deliver goods such as takeaway food, coffee and medicine to various addresses, but now Wing devices will serve a large metropolis using the parking lot of a Walgreens store in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to serve areas of the city of Frisco and Little Elm, delivering goods directly to customers' homes.

Google launched drone delivery in Texas

Wing will deploy unmanned aerial vehicles in retail locations ready to fly directly to customers. Planes will arrive in small containers that will serve as tiny hangars, allowing each store to quickly and easily deploy a small dedicated fleet from its parking lot, whether on the roof or in small rooms adjacent to the buildings themselves.

When this model is launched, Walgreens will be the first retail company in the United States to use this new delivery approach. Walgreens employees will process orders and download parcels to drones, and Wing will monitor the work of the delivery service. In addition to the Walgreens store, Wing teamed up with Hillwood to prepare a separate drone delivery point at Frisco Station, a city multifunctional complex. In preparation for the launch of this delivery project, both companies from June 2021 conducted test flights at the Alliance Texas Flight Test Center of Hillwood, this is a kind of test center for drones in Fort Worth.

In early November 2021, companies will begin a small number of training flights in Frisco and Little Elm, and there will also be an attempt to organize a demonstration to deliver goods to the client. Since the beginning of 2022, companies expect to launch a commercial service, which will be the first of its kind organized in a large US state. So far, there is no information about what Wing will do to solve an unexpected problem, such as a bird attack, which first arose in Australia.^[1]

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