Zipline replaces delivery trucks with drones that land on doorsteps with dinner-plate accuracy. The system uses aeroacoustic engineering to stay quiet, installs in under 24 hours, and already serves Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Sweetgreen, and Walmart.
In the US this year alone, there will be 5.5 billion instant deliveries to customer homes. We're using a 3,000-pound gas combustion vehicle driven by a human to deliver something to your home that weighs on average 5 pounds. Expensive, it's surprisingly slow, it's terrible for the environment, creates traffic in our neighborhoods. And so we knew that for this technology to scale, it would need to be way safer and extremely quiet. Everything about the vehicle is designed for aeroacoustics and to be as quiet as possible. We knew we'd need to be able to deliver very accurately straight onto someone's front doorstep, right into their backyard, even, you know, the rooftop of an apartment building. We needed to be able to deliver with dinner plate level accuracy. And then the most important thing is on the shipper side, we need to be able to install in 24 hours or less and have that be really efficient and easy, infrastructure light process. So Zipline has different pickup points. This is the wall-mounted pickup point. Whether it's a big health system like Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic or the VA, or it's one of our restaurant partners like Sweetgreen and Essino Farms or Walmart, we show up, we install this magical portal in the wall, and now anybody in the building can just immediately pass things through the magical portal and they're teleported directly to the home that it needs to go to.
