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Wonder and Zipline announced a partnership this week that will put restaurant meals from Bobby Flay, Marcus Samuelsson, Tejas Barbecue, and Di Fara Pizza into the Texas sky. Drone deliveries start in January 2027 in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, the same corridor where DroneXL has tracked Zipline’s Walmart expansion city by city since 2025. Wonder…
Zipline plans to expand its autonomous drone delivery service to Austin later this year, making it the California company’s third Texas market in under 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth launched in August 2025. Houston followed in April 2026. Austin is next, and the pace of this rollout tells you more than any single city announcement. Zipline…
The headline you keep reading is that drone pilots will fly beyond visual line of sight “within a year or so.” That framing is already out of date. The deadline for a final Part 108 rule was February 1, 2026, set by President Trump’s June 2025 executive order, and that date came and went months…
Matternet closed a $33 million private placement and went public last week through a reverse merger with shell company Los Altos Ventures Corp., now renamed Matternet Inc. The deal makes Matternet the first pure play drone delivery company on U.S. public markets, a milestone the company has been positioning for since landing FAA type certification…
The Good Drone Company signs an exclusive deal with ThatcherX to fly 25 kg cargo drones across Kenya, targeting heavier loads than Zipline carries.
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Walmart announced on May 29, 2026 that it has crossed the 1 million drone delivery mark across its U.S. operations. The headline number is the kind of thing every press release reaches for, but the line buried in the announcement is the one I want to focus on. 40% of that million happened in a…
Flytrex unveiled its new Sky2 delivery drone on Thursday, and the headline number is the payload: 8.8 pounds (4 kg), enough to carry two large pizzas, bread bites, and sodas in a single trip. That is roughly enough food for a family, which is the line Flytrex has been chasing for years. The previous Sky…
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