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The marketing stunt marks the first drone delivery by PepsiCo, the company said. [Photo: Wing]
It’s Up, and It’s Good! PepsiCo & Wing To Deliver Free Super Bowl Snacks by Drone in Frisco
by Lance Murray | Feb 4, 2025
PepsiCo's free Party Pack—which will include Doritos, Tostitos dips, and Pepsi Zero Sugar—will be delivered to eligible Frisco residents by Wing drones Feb. 8-9, in time for the Super Bowl matchup of the Chiefs vs. the Eagles.
by Lance Murray |
Dec 18, 2024
Launching at Brookfield Properties’ Stonebriar Centre in Frisco and Hulen Mall in Fort Worth, the service is said to be the first of its kind for shopping malls in the U.S., following a recent pilot program in Virginia.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 1, 2024
Fast food keeps getting faster. Thanks to a new partnership between California's Serve Robotics and Wing, robots will soon be rolling down Dallas-area sidewalks, taking restaurant orders to be plucked skyward by a hovering Wing drone for deliveries "as much as 6 miles away."
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by David Seeley |
Aug 13, 2024
A man behind Israel's first Moon mission has been delivering chicken wings by drone near Fort Worth since 2022. Now—after making 100,000 drone food deliveries in North Texas and North Carolina—his startup Flytrex is expanding to Little Elm, with plans for more DFW cities to come.
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Walmart will soon offer a Wing drone delivery option right on its app for select customer areas in North Texas [Photo: Walmart]
Shop and Drop: Walmart’s ‘Drone-Ready Picks’ Feature to Land on App for North Texas Shoppers
by David Seeley | Jun 6, 2024
Starting later this month, Walmart app users in Frisco, Lewisville, and North Richland Hills can click "Shop drone-ready picks" on the Walmart app to launch Wing drone deliveries to their homes. Other recently unveiled tech has been rolling out, too.
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by AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone |
Apr 10, 2024
The aerospace sector stands on the brink of transformation as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) takes flight. These cutting-edge technologies will not only integrate new forms of transportation into our current mobility ecosystem but present significant opportunities for economic growth. Perhaps most importantly, the success of AAM aircraft in the real world hinges on the development of robust infrastructure and fully integrated logistics systems.
sponsored by AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 10, 2024
Powered by Wing and Zipline, Walmart's drone delivery expansion is set to reach up to 75% of residents in Dallas-Fort Worth. Its DFW footprint encompasses more than 30 local areas and sets a new benchmark for retail drone services in a single U.S. market.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 31, 2023
Dublin-based Manna Drone Delivery is kicking off its U.S. commercial operations from the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone in Fort Worth. For now, it's delivering food and beverages (and yes, candy) from national and local retailers to only one North Texas neighborhood: Pecan Square by Hillwood Communities in Northlake.
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Walmart is delivering packages by drone to Dallas-area customers in a partnership with DroneUp. [Photo: Walmart]
Walmart Launches Drone Delivery From 11 Dallas-Area Stores
by David Seeley | Dec 15, 2022
You may hear a buzz in the air soon within a mile of 11 Dallas-area Walmart stores, but it's not the sound of an early electric Santa sleigh. It's another sign that commercial drones are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. The big-box giant has expanded its drone delivery partnership with DroneUp into Texas.
For a $3.99 delivery fee, customers within a mile of each store can order packages and see them drop gently to their yard or driveway on the same day.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 29, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he's partnering with Dallas-based Brinker International on drone deliveries of chicken wings to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards and businesses.
The launch begins today in Granbury, 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, with potential plans to expand to "a suburb east of Dallas" as Flytrex' footprint grows.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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by Alex Edwards |
Oct 20, 2021
Frisco and Little Elm are the first cities to get a new drone delivery service from Wing, a sister company of Google, and Walgreens. The partners will operate on-demand air deliveries that bring essential items straight to your door.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of May 7
by Quincy Preston | May 14, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's dynamic employee security risk scoring, Dolby Laboratories' optical system for image projectors, Freeflight Acquisitions' autonomous anonymity system, IBM's video sentiment analysis tool for video messaging,Peloton Therapeutics' methods of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension, Siemens Healthcare's image-based tumor phenotyping with machine learning from synthetic data, and STMicroelectronics' zero standby power for powerline communication devices
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by Quincy Preston |
May 8, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Nvidia's sound-activated control system, Shavelogic's pivoting razors, YSEOP's techniques for automatic generation of natural language text, Shooting Simulator's method for marksmanship training, Wells Fargo's biometric electronic signature tokens, Advatect Diagnostics' compositions for detecting fungi and mycotoxins, Bell's avionics system for using a smartphone to input-output flight data, CareView Communications' system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns, Moneygram's methods for providing bail and bond services via a money transfer network, and HoboLoco's foot-operated video game and virtual reality controller.
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by Quincy Preston |
May 1, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Hammond Development's system for enabling a communication device to remotely execute an application, Amazon's technology for job processing using a public service network, University of Arkansas' new white wine grape plant named "Opportunity," Textron Innovations' takeoff/landing touchdown protection management system, Tuesday Morning's cookware lid with basting projections, Olaeris' battery status and failure detector, 3i AVI's computerized exchange network, and an unassigned patent for hair-cutting techniques for an automated hair-cutting system.
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by Quincy Preston |
Apr 24, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 14 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's augmented reality visual Wi-Fi signal, Bank of America's autonomous software containers, Genband's method for blocking notification messages during screen sharing, Linear Labs' brushless electric motor/generator, Sabre's tokenized data security, Phazr's window-installed wireless communications device, Conduent's method for video-based detection of drive-offs and walk-offs
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