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Cleveland Clinic's Drone Pharmacy Runs 20 Deliveries A Week

Cleveland Clinic's Zipline prescription drone service is flying about 20 deliveries a week from four aircraft in Beachwood, with charging room for 12.

Haye KestelooAug 316 min read

Delivery

Cleveland Clinic Prescription Drones Go Live As Zipline's U.S. Deliveries Hit 70% Of Its Daily Volume

Cleveland Clinic and Zipline completed their first prescription drone deliveries in Beachwood, Ohio, as Zipline says U.S. flights now top 70% of its daily volume.

Haye KestelooAug 7

Anduril

UDD Picks Ohio For First U.S. FPV Drone Factory, Turning A Pentagon Contract Into 300 American Jobs

Ukrainian Defense Drones (UDD), the U.S. company representing Ukraine’s F-Drones, has chosen the Village of Holland in Northwest Ohio for its first American assembly and manufacturing center. The company plans to invest $18.4 million and create at least 300 jobs in Lucas County by the end of 2029, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Congresswoman Marcy…

Haye KestelooJul 2

Walmart

Walmart Brings Wing Drones to Cincinnati and Kroger’s Door

Walmart is bringing drone delivery to Cincinnati through its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing, planting an autonomous grocery flight operation in the same metro that houses Kroger’s global headquarters. The Ohio launch is part of the 150-store Wing-Walmart rollout announced in January 2026. That January announcement named Cincinnati alongside Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami and…

Rafael SuárezJun 27

US Air Force swaps AI midflight on YFQ-44A

Anduril

Anduril Eyes Nissan’s Oppama Plant to Mass-Produce Japanese Drones, Turning a Car Factory Into a Weapons Line

Anduril Industries is in talks to buy Nissan’s Oppama assembly plant in Yokosuka, Japan, and convert the 64-year-old car factory into a production site for military drones. Reuters broke the story on June 25, 2026, citing three people familiar with the negotiations. No deal has been signed, and Nissan says it is weighing other buyers,…

Haye KestelooJun 25

Walmart

Walmart and Wing Add Seven Markets, Putting Two Drone Operators on a Collision Course in Memphis

Walmart and its drone partner Wing named seven new metro areas for their delivery network on June 10, and one of those cities should sound familiar to anyone who read DroneXL earlier today. Memphis is on the list. So is Phoenix. The Alphabet-owned operator will push the partnership toward nearly 20 US markets, and the…

Haye KestelooJun 17

White House

DOJ Charges Five Men In White House UFC Drone Plot, And The Complaints Show A Plan Long On Intent, Short On Drones

DOJ charges five men over a drone-and-sniper plot at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event. Court filings show real guns but barely-built drones.

Haye KestelooJun 16

Skydio

Westmag Raises $11M To Build American Drone Motors, Betting Scale Beats China On Price

Westmag emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $11 million in seed funding to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators in South San Francisco, aiming squarely at the one part of the American drone supply chain almost no one has tried to fix. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG,…

Haye KestelooJun 3

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