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Company

Zipline

Customers
Pagliacci Pizza, GNC, Intermountain Health, OhioHealth, Michigan Medicine [1]
Deployment
Zipline — distribution center in Rwanda (delivering blood to rural hospitals) [2]
Deployment
Seven countries — 850,000+ drone deliveries completed [1]
Founded
2011 [3] [1]
Headquarters
South San Francisco, California [4] [1] sources disagree
Introduced
2023 [2] [5] sources disagree
Payload
2.5-3.5 kg [2]
Top speed
112 km/h [2]
Website
http://www.flyzipline.com [3]

Timeline

  1. Uber and Zipline Target One Million Drone Deliveries a Day by 2029 DroneLife
  2. Cleveland Clinic Launches First Long-Term U.S. Health System Drone Prescription Delivery Program DroneLife
  3. Robot Talk Episode 103 – Delivering medicine by drone, with Keenan Wyrobek Robohub
  4. Video Friday: Zipline Delivers IEEE Spectrum
  5. How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System IEEE Spectrum
  6. A look at Zipline’s future and the design of the Zip’s Droid The Robot Report
  7. NVIDIA Jetson supports Zipline drone deliveries, as Omniverse enables Amazon digital twins The Robot Report
  8. Pie From the Sky: Drone Startup Delivers Pizza, Meds and Side of Excitement NVIDIA
  9. Zipline Adds Rappelling Droid to Delivery Drones IEEE Spectrum

References

  1. blogs.nvidia.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    It recently added services for Seattle’s Pagliacci Pizza, vitamin and supplement giant GNC, and large health systems like Intermountain Health, OhioHealth and Michigan Medicine.
  2. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    we drove an hour over winding dirt roads to a rural hospital. Shortly after we arrived, a drone made the trip and delivered a package of blood in about 14 minutes
  3. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  4. flyzipline.com — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  5. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Zipline's Platform 2 is now well past the prototype stage.
  6. zipline.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026