Wing drone delivery might not be a novelty anymore

Wing 无人机配送或许不再只是新鲜事

Wing, the Alphabet-owned company that delivers groceries and even coffee using autonomous drones, is pushing into seven more U.S. cities through its partnership with Walmart. The expansion is part of a broader plan to build a drone-delivery network of more than 270 Walmart locations by next year.

Wing 是 Alphabet 旗下的公司，利用自动驾驶无人机配送杂货甚至咖啡。通过与沃尔玛（Walmart）的合作，该公司正向美国另外七个城市拓展业务。此次扩张是其更宏大计划的一部分，旨在明年之前建立一个覆盖超过 270 家沃尔玛门店的无人机配送网络。

The new markets include Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City, bringing Wing and Walmart’s total service footprint to nearly 20 U.S. markets. Wing is already delivering Walmart goods to customers in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Greater Houston. The company has announced plans to expand to Orlando, Tampa, Charlotte, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Miami as well.

新市场包括孟菲斯、新奥尔良、费城、凤凰城、圣地亚哥、旧金山湾区和盐湖城，这使得 Wing 与沃尔玛的服务版图总计覆盖了近 20 个美国市场。Wing 此前已在亚特兰大、达拉斯-沃斯堡和大休斯顿地区为沃尔玛客户提供配送服务。该公司还宣布了进军奥兰多、坦帕、夏洛特、圣路易斯、辛辛那提、洛杉矶和迈阿密的计划。

Walmart has experimented with drone delivery for years. But after successful deployments with Wing in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, it upsized its commitment. In January, the companies announced plans to bring the on-demand drone-delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores.

沃尔玛多年来一直在尝试无人机配送。但在与 Wing 在达拉斯-沃斯堡和亚特兰大成功部署后，沃尔玛加大了投入力度。今年 1 月，双方宣布计划将按需无人机配送服务扩展至另外 150 家沃尔玛门店。

The upshot: Consumers are using drone delivery more than you might think. Wing has completed more than 1 million commercial deliveries through its partnership with Walmart. Wing’s chief business officer, Heather Rivera, told TechCrunch back in January that its top 25% of customers use the service three times a week.

结论是：消费者使用无人机配送的频率可能超乎你的想象。通过与沃尔玛的合作，Wing 已完成了超过 100 万次商业配送。Wing 首席商务官 Heather Rivera 在 1 月份接受 TechCrunch 采访时表示，其最活跃的 25% 的客户每周会使用该服务三次。

“Our work with Walmart has shown that drone delivery isn’t just a novelty, it’s a service many customers count on multiple times per week,” Rivera said in a statement announcing the new markets.

“我们与沃尔玛的合作表明，无人机配送不仅仅是一种新鲜事物，它已成为许多客户每周多次依赖的服务，” Rivera 在宣布新市场时发表声明称。