![]() The actual delivery time – once DroneUp gets the product until it is delivered - is about eight minutes. The whole process – from time of ordering to time of delivery - is about a half-hour or less, Walker said.Ībout 17 minutes of the time right now is waiting for a Walmart employee to pull the product off the shelf and put it in a box, he said. A cable on the drone slowly lowers the package into the yard or driveway. A certified DroneUp pilot flies packages to customers’ homes with visual site of the store. Walmart workers get the merchandise and pack the items into a box. Once verified, the customer orders the products. Here’s how the drone delivery works: Consumers located near a Walmart offering the drone service will be able to log on to to verify that an order can be delivered to their neighborhood. Walmart announced plans in May to expand its DroneUp delivery network to 34 sites by the end of 2022 to six states including Virginia. This provides Walmart with the ability to deliver more than 1 million packages by drone in a year. ![]() The drone industry is expected to grow to more than $60 billion by 2030, Walker said.ĭroneUp has been using its drone technology delivery service from two Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas since December 2021. If they see a drone flying past their house, they might be feeling more suspicious and concerned there's a camera flying around near them and they don't know who it is,” he said. “They are not thinking that the drone could be saving someone from having to risk their neck to keep their lights on or something like that.” “There are massive benefits that the public may not really be aware of. “We need to be creating a positive image of drones in the public for the things that drones can do and the values they can provide to the general public - like the easier delivery, avoiding last-mile problems, avoiding traffic, creating safer work conditions, and preventing utility outages,” Beiro said. “For a cupcake maker or a bakery, drone delivery has huge potential not just on the delivery side, but even on the supply side, helping bring things from vendors into your shop,” he said. “It's a tired pun in this industry, but the sky really is the limit for what applications can be found and what innovations are possible once people start thinking about drones as more than just eyes in the sky.”Įducating the public is key to the future of drone use, he said. “People need to realize the possible applications of unmanned aerial vehicles for each of their own business models,” said Beiro, Linebird’s CEO. ![]() ![]() Drones are capable of so much more than just taking pictures,” said Michael Beiro, who founded Linebird in 2018 as part of an independent research project while a student at Virginia Commonwealth University.īeiro and Tom Walker, the founder and CEO DroneUp, talked about the drone industry during the Virtual Innovation Spotlight panel discussion presented by RVA757 Connects. “It is time to start thinking about drones as another tool in the toolbox. ![]()
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