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A Reuters report details how Wing and Zipline push toward profitability with Walmart while Kroger, whose 2021 Ohio drone pilot died under pre-BVLOS rules, weighs a relaunch as PwC forecasts 65%-a-year U.S. market growth through 2034.
Read the story →Cleveland Clinic will begin flying prescriptions to patients' homes via Zipline drones this summer, using a tethered delivery droid that lowers packages onto porches near its Beachwood campus in Ohio.
Irish drone-delivery firm Manna Air Delivery named Tulsa, Oklahoma its US base on July 8, 2026, pledging 1,000+ jobs and a 30-40 site launch network within a year, as AUVSI pushes the FAA to finalize Part 108 BVLOS rules.
BayCare and Zipline will build a Part 135-certified drone network across 16 Tampa Bay hospitals, starting in St. Petersburg-Clearwater with first flights targeted for late 2027.
BayCare and Zipline will build an autonomous drone-delivery network for lab samples, medications and critical supplies across West Central Florida, launching in the St. Petersburg area in late 2027 on FAA Part 135 BVLOS authority.
Wonder, the food-hall operator that owns Grubhub, will launch drone food delivery in Dallas in January 2027 — entering a commercial market where Walmart and Wing are pushing toward 20 U.S. metros and Zipline has cleared 2 million deliveries.
Founded in 2014 to route blood and vaccines around failed road infrastructure in Rwanda, Zipline has logged 100 million autonomous miles, serves 4,000-plus health facilities across seven countries, and is now deploying its second-generation tethered-Droid delivery system in American suburbs.
Zipline's decade of operations across Africa has produced peer-reviewed evidence of reduced maternal mortality and vaccine stockouts. US hospital networks are building toward BVLOS corridors—but the FAA's case-by-case waiver system remains the binding constraint.
Wing has logged over 400,000 deliveries. Meituan runs 28,000 daily flights across 12 Chinese cities. Yet for most of the world, the fundamental question of who can fly autonomously over populated areas remains unresolved — a regulatory coordination problem, not an engineering one.
Matternet completed a reverse merger in late May and closed a $33M oversubscribed placement, becoming the first publicly traded pure-play drone delivery company — a structural first that finally lets investors own the sector directly, not as a footnote inside Amazon or Alphabet.
Walmart hit one million drone deliveries on May 29, 2026 — proof the technology works. But Amazon still spends roughly $63 to drop off a $10 order. Here is a clear-eyed breakdown of where the money goes, who has cracked the model, and what has to change before drones threaten the delivery van.
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