Uber expands the use of robots to deliver food. This time, customers on the east coast get the technology for the first time. Credit: Uber
Your next order from Doordash may not be via a delivery person on an electrically powered delivery bike.
It can be delivered by the air.
In recent years, companies such as Walmart have increased their use of drone technology to deliver groceries and household items, aimed at surpassing competitors and conquering market share. Now Drone companies are focusing their sentences on a different purpose: food delivery services.
Drone Delivery Company Flytrex collaborated with Doordash to launch a drone delivery service in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex from Thursday. More than 30,000 households, which are equal to more than 100,000 inhabitants, will be able to order from dozens of restaurant options, including Dad John’s, via Doordash and having Drone delivered, who first marks an industry.
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The operational hours of Doordash will extend from 8 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. and will have the possibility to deliver a family-sized meal or up to 6.6 pounds of food. The models of the next generation will increase the capacity to 8.8 pounds.
A shot from the Flytrex drone that delivers a thash order. (Flytrex)
Flytrex drones can generally fly at speeds of 32 MPH, so that they can reach customers in less than five minutes, according to the company’s website. They are also able to fly around five miles.
Flytrex has been working together with retailers and restaurants for on-demand drone food delivery since its foundation in 2013. The company has completed more than 200,000 deliveries in Texas and North Carolina. The completed more than 1,000 with Doordash during the pilot program.
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A shot from a flytrex drone that delivers a thash order. (Flytrex)
This partnership comes from Doordash Labs, the Robotics and Automation division of the company. The division is aimed at identifying and integrating autonomous solutions to improve the customer experience, to stimulate the increased demand for local traders and to create more merit possibilities for dashers, what the company’s period is for delivery workers.
“The next phase of drone delivery is about the convenience, powered by extensive possibilities that unlock a wider range of use cases,” said Doordash Labs head of Product Harrison Shih. “Larger loads and longer operational hours enable us to serve more customers, more efficiently than ever before.”
Shih agreed that the expansion of its operation underlines how the industry “closer to making drone delivery makes a scalable, reliable option for daily local trade”.
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Earlier this month, Walmart announced that it was expanding Drone Delivery Service With the wing of Google to launch in 100 stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa, built on the existing activities in the northwest of Arkansas and Texas.
A restaurant shows a Doordash logo in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City on Saturday 28 October 2023. (Michael Nagle / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty images)
The retailer said it is the first to scales this service in five states, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas-Die underlines his goal to become a leader in technically engaged retail. Wing flies his drones beyond the visual line of view of a maximum of 6 miles plane vary from the store. According to Walmart, the products come to customers within less than 30 minutes.
In February, Uber announced that it expanded the use of robots to deliver food to customers on the east coast with AVRide. The companies, which joined forces in 2024, first launched the Avride Autonomous robots for Uber Eats customers in Dallas and Austin, Texas.
Meanwhile, Amazon customers within the delivery range in the College Station, Texas and the West Valley of the Phoenix Metro area access to the Drone-Bezorgservice of one hour, according to its website. The company said that the technology enables one package of up to five pounds in less than an hour.
