Zipline unveils autonomous system for ‘best delivery experience’

Zipline has announced its new platform, which allows for quiet, fast, and precise autonomous delivery to residences in cities and suburbs. “Soon, people will be able to press a button on their phone and moments later have their order magically delivered to their doorstep or backyard. Our goal for the new service is to feel like teleportation,” said Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, co-founder and CEO, Zipline.

The company's next-generation home delivery platform is practically silent (made to sound like wind rustling leaves) and is intended to deliver up to 7 times faster than traditional vehicle delivery, with 10-mile deliveries completed in around 10 minutes.

“Platform 1 will continue to efficiently cover huge areas, and this new platform, platform 2, will layer into dense areas with ultra precise deliveries, enabling a phenomenal home delivery service. Both platforms being radically more environmentally friendly than every other instant delivery alternative. This technology is the start of a more sustainable and accessible future,” said Joseph Mardall, Head of Engineering, Zipline.

In an announcement about Zipline’s new platform, Cliffton also mentioned that Zipline is now the largest autonomy delivery system — autonomous delivery system on the planet. They have flown the equivalent of going to the moon and back 80 times and are on track to make twice as many deliveries this year as they made in all previous years combined.

Several businesses in the healthcare and restaurant sectors have already agreed to use Zipline's new home delivery service. Michigan Medicine will use Zipline’s new service to more than double the number of prescriptions it fills each year through its in-house pharmacy. Intermountain Health will use it to deliver prescriptions to patients’ homes in the Salt Lake City metro area.

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