Google’s drone delivery service Wing starts mall-to-home deliveries

<p>Do you want sushi by drone? Ice cream or coffee in 2 minutes? Wing is Google's drone division (OK, Alphabet's!) and is doing just that right now in three locations around the world.</p> <p>They're planning to scale globally and in the U.S., but are working out all the kinks and regulatory permissions. And they just announced some exciting news: first of its kind rooftop drone stations at a mall.</p> <p>You order on an app, a retailer preps your item, attaches it to a drone, and it flies to you at 110 km/hour.</p> <p>In this edition of TechFirst, we're chatting with Jonathan Bass, Wing’s head of marketing and communications.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Links:</p> <p>Wing: https://wing.com</p> <p>Support TechFirst with $SMRT coins: https://rally.io/creator/SMRT/</p> <p>Buy $SMRT to join a community focused on tech for good: the emerging world of smart matter. Access my private Slack, get your name in my book, suggest speakers for TechFirst ... and support my work.</p> <p><br></p> <p>TechFirst transcripts: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/tech-first/</p> <p>Forbes columns: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/&nbsp;</p> <p>Subscribe to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/techfirst&nbsp;</p> <p>Full videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/johnkoetsier?sub_confirmation=1&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Keep in touch: https://twitter.com/johnkoetsier&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>0:00 50X more efficient</p> <p>1:12 Rooftop delivery service</p> <p>2:54 How long does drone delivery take?</p> <p>3:59 How Wing's drone delivery works</p> <p>6:34 What customers say</p> <p>7:00 Retailers and drone delivery</p> <p>9:01 Where's Amazon?</p> <p>11:00 When will Wing scale?</p>