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Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the…
FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks — The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could…
Zipline Adds $200M to Series H, Bringing Total to $800M as Repeat Orders Drive Faster-Than-Expected Growth
Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have moved…
Lutnick at Zipline: A New Blueprint for the American Drone Economy
The photos from inside Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility show Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, examining a drone airframe alongside CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton — American flags visible in the background. It’s a deliberate image, and it carries…
Amazon Prime Air Quits Drone Alliance Over Safety
Amazon’s Prime Air division has walked away from the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the reason is blunt: a fundamental disagreement over whether detect-and-avoid technology should be mandatory across the national airspace. The split went public March 12 after Reuters obtained…
Amazon Prime Air hosts community meet-and-greet in Tinley Park ahead of Chicago suburbs drone delivery launch
Amazon is bringing its Prime Air drone delivery service to Chicago’s south suburbs this summer, and the company wants to introduce itself to the neighbors first. As Patch reports, a free community meet-and-greet is scheduled for Monday, March 2 at…
Amazon Prime Air launches in Kansas City, its seventh US market, days after Texas drone crash
Amazon activated Prime Air drone delivery in Kansas City, Kansas today, February 9, making it the seventh metropolitan area in the United States to receive the service, as reported by KCTV5. The launch comes just five days after an MK30 drone crashed into a Richardson, Texas…
Zipline and Rwanda sign expansion agreement as country becomes first to build nationwide autonomous delivery
Zipline and the Government of Rwanda have signed an expansion agreement that makes Rwanda the first country to build a nationwide autonomous delivery network. The deal, announced February 5 by Zipline Rwanda, is the first expansion agreement under Zipline‘s $150…
FAA Administrator Bedford visits Manna’s Dublin HQ, signals US-EU alignment on drone delivery rules
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford traveled to Dublin last week to meet with Manna drone delivery founder Bobby Healy at the company’s headquarters. The visit, which also included Avtrain CEO Julie Garland and representatives from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), centered…
Choctaw Nation lands $2M federal grant to fly medical supplies across Oklahoma’s rural reservation
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) just received a $2 million SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build out a drone-based medical delivery network across its 10,923-square-mile reservation in southeastern Oklahoma. The…
Zipline’s $7.6B Bet: The Economics of Delivering Burritos vs. Saving Lives
The Verge’s Tim Stevens stood on a lawn in Rowlett, Texas last year and watched a strange-looking craft clear the trees, hover overhead, and lower a brown paper package on a thin rope. His lunch had arrived by drone. The…
Zipline reaches $7.6 billion valuation as Valor Equity Partners leads $600 million funding round
Watching Zipline’s trajectory from a Rwanda-based medical delivery startup to America’s largest autonomous delivery network has been one of the defining stories in commercial drone aviation. The company just reached a $7.6 billion valuation with a $600 million funding round…