Commerce & Finance · Recorded milestone
Drone delivery service
Recorded year2016
Zipline starts flying blood to Rwandan clinics in 2016, the first national drone delivery service; Wing and Walmart later drop parcels in suburbs.
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Led to
- Routine beyond-sight drone rulesForecast · ~2027enables
- Drone delivery mailboxForecast · ~2029enables
- Instant-response drone networkForecast · ~2029enables
- Pocket guardian droneForecast · ~2033enables
- City drone portsForecast · ~2041enables
- Robot last-mile deliveryForecast · ~2042enables
- Self-flying air trafficForecast · ~2045enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.