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Zipline Launches drone delivery services for homes and offices

Zipline has launched its new home delivery service, which will facilitate medications and food deliveries via drones at homes and offices.

The logistics company made this revelation on Wednesday, 15 March 2023, as it launched its new P2 system (Zipline Platform 2).

The new drone system will be used to expedite diagnostics and deliver prescriptions and medical devices to hospitals, laboratories, and doctor’s offices throughout the Multicare network facilities.

It will also be used in the restaurant industry to facilitate faster delivery of food to persons in homes and offices with spaces for drones to drop off items.

Zipline P2 is designed to be fast, quiet, and precise as possible. The new drones can complete a 10-mile delivery in 10 minutes, carrying a payload of 6-8 pounds item. It can is nearly inaudible and can fly up to 300 feet above ground level.

Speaking at the launch, the co-founder reiterated Zipline’s vision of making deliveries work for consumers around their own schedule.

“Our new service is changing that and will finally make deliveries work for you and around your schedule. We have built the closest thing to teleportation ever created – a smooth, ultrafast, convenient, and truly magical autonomous logistics system that serves all people equally, wherever they are,” said Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, co-founder, and CEO of Zipline.

According to him, drone delivery is fast and economical as compared to transport delivery services.

“Over the last decade, global demand for instant delivery has skyrocketed, but the technology we’re using to deliver is 100 years old. We’re still using the same 3,000-pound, gas combustion vehicles, driven by humans, to make billions of deliveries that usually weigh less than 5 pounds. It’s slow, it’s expensive, and it’s terrible for the planet”.

Zipline has projected to complete about 1 million deliveries by the end of 2023 and expects to operate more flights annually than most airlines by 2025.

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