Alphabet's Wing to start drone delivery in San Francisco Bay Area

March 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet-owned Wing ‌plans to ​begin ​delivering packages by drone to homes in California's San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months, ‌it said on Monday, extending its rollout to one ⁠of its earliest testing grounds.

Wing is seeking to scale what it says ‌is a solution to ‌the hurdles facing last-mile delivery of small household items and meals by using lightweight, automated drones designed to fly ​directly to homes in dense residential areas.

The expansion marks a return to the roots for the company, which ⁠was founded in the Bay Area in 2012 as part of Alphabet's X.

X is ​Alphabet’s "Moonshot Factory," a research unit that takes on experimental projects such as self-driving firm Waymo, and ​helps spin them into independent companies.

Wing ‌provides drone delivery for Walmart groceries and household essentials in under 30 minutes in some ⁠U.S. states. With DoorDash, it offers rapid food delivery from restaurant chains such as Wendy’s and Panera.

The company has completed more ⁠than 750,000 deliveries to date, and serves more than two million customers ​across parts of the U.S., it said.

The Bay Area rollout comes as Wing pushes to build a logistics network focused on small and ‌local deliveries, while working to broaden adoption beyond early pilot markets.

The company also started a ‌pilot program with Serve Robotics in October 2024, in which ⁠Serve's on-ground robots picked up ‌food from restaurants ​and transferred it to Wing drones for aerial delivery.

(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal ‌Muhammed)

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