Phew, crazy 24 hours. In case you missed it,
@Zipline
just announced our new home delivery service. We are reinventing instant delivery to make it 7x as fast as cars, less expensive, and zero-emission.
Whoa,
@zipline
just made the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight using onboard perception in US history. We were told a few days ago by a respected reporter they thought this wouldn’t happen for ten years and it happened two days later 😅
A few hours ago,
@zipline
passed 500k autonomous flights delivering crucial products to our customers. The team has flown about 36 million paid autonomous miles, 10-100x the scale of most of the big autonomous car companies. That’s 75x round trips to the moon! 🚀🌓
Big news: Zipline has signed a $61m partnership renewal with
@RwandaGov
, our first customer ever! We are dramatically scaling our automated logistics service in the country and Rwanda is also becoming an investor in Zipline.
Everyone at
@zipline
is proud to finally share what we've been building over the last year. Our new product is the fastest delivery drone in the world, and will allow our distribution centers to go from 50 to 500 deliveries per day, saving lives and saving our customers money.
Zipline is expanding rapidly in Rwanda. We just had 7 autonomous aircraft in the air at one time, all delivering blood products to patients throughout the country!
When we launched the first
@zipline
distribution center in Rwanda 4 years ago, we dreamed about flying at night, when patients often have emergency needs. This week we turned on national scale 24/7 delivery. 🚀🌍
Today,
@Zipline
started service to Butaro hospital, which is the farthest away hospital that we currently deliver to. We’re excited to support the amazing nurses and doctors there
So freaking cool to have one of the best science explainers of all time,
@MarkRober
, hang out at Zipline and visit our global distribution centers. Video came out a few minutes ago!!
A huge moment for
@zipline
. Receiving our first stocks of a wide variety of medical products beyond blood. Vaccines, oxytocin, antivenin. Lots of announcements coming up in the next few weeks
The FAA just made a landmark decision that is going to change the future of drone delivery in the U.S.
Until now, drone delivery companies in the U.S. have been required to have visual observers, stationed on the ground along routes, staring at the sky during a delivery... (1/5)
@Zipline
just made its 1,000,000th autonomous delivery to a customer. 10 years ago experts told me drone delivery wasn't possible, would never be allowed anywhere, and no one would ever pay for it. Turns out it is possible and people love it.
Zipline has some big announcements to share next week. Until then, here's our kickass new deployments team setting up our first cold-weather distribution center in North Dakota.
@Zipline
is not a fancy place to work
Zipline delivers to thousands of health facilities serving millions of people across multiple countries.
It took us 3.5 years to reach 100,000 products delivered. It’s taken just 3.5 months to reach 200,000.
Our work has only just begun.
Delivery volume across
@zipline
distribution centers has increased by 18+% every month since pandemic began. Just passed 120x around equator of earth. Requires simultaneous launch and recovery, like this
A few minutes ago,
@zipline
made our first flight from our brand new distribution center in Eastern Rwanda. We’re excited to add new hospitals to the network over the coming weeks! Thanks to our amazing partners
@RwandaHealth
@RDBrwanda
and
@RwandaCAA
On Friday, Zipline signed a partnership with Maharashtra, one of the most dynamic and innovative states in India, to build 12 distribution centers and serve 130m people. So excited to be working with to
@CMOMaharashtra
,
@SerumInstIndia
,
@AyushmanNHA
Pascaline joined
@zipline
9 months ago in battery manufacturing. She was super ambitious, learned flight operations, became maintenance technician, and is now an air traffic controller. Pretty good first year on the job!
@zipline
launched the largest commercial autonomous system on earth in Ghana last week, which will serve 2,000 hospitals and 12m people. It was a profound experience, so I wanted to share some pictures
Really excited that one of the most inspiring leaders in all of global public health, Bono, is joining
@zipline
board. Let’s bend the moral arc a little further together
The whole
@zipline
team is honored to serve Nigeria and deliver COVID vaccine to rural areas. Thanks to
@GovKaduna
and
@AMBaloni
for giving us this opportunity to save lives and expand access
It was an honor to spend time with
@PaulKagame
,
@cakamanzi
and
@RaymondChambers
this week. We are starting to think about how Rwanda can be a role model for the rest of the world in instant delivery and universal healthcare access.
Tony Hsieh was the person who inspired me to become an entrepreneur. I read Delivering Happiness after graduating from school (lived in same dorm as him, 14 years later). I cold emailed him when I was in Vegas. Tony was the first investor who believed in me
Early morning at Zipline’s third distribution center in Ghana, which uses autonomous aircraft to serve almost 300 hospitals and health facilities in the northernmost and hardest to reach part of the country
Rwanda team achieved a total delivery time (from order placed to lifesaving product delivered) of twelve minutes today. The future of logistics is instant delivery
One of Zipline’s distribution centers had 16 aircraft flying simultaneously today. This was under test conditions, but we’ll be rolling out to all our global distribution centers in next few weeks so that we can serve more patients from each
First commercial flight of our new delivery vehicle in Rwanda yesterday. This will be a big enabler for scaling to serve 100m people over the coming year. So proud of
@zipline
team ❤️❤️❤️
Zipline began the world’s first autonomous delivery service of COVID-19 samples to hospitals across Ghana a few days ago. This is allowing patients in rural areas to receive diagnoses in a few hours rather than days.
@zipline
launched our commercial service in Japan this week! We’re partnering with
@toyotatsusho
to deliver a wide variety of medical products across the Goto Islands.
Today we added two new hospitals to
@zipline
instant delivery network in Rwanda: Gahini and Rwinkwavu. Soon, we’ll be transitioning to adding primary care facilities!
Incredible progress by the
@zipline
route planning team, which is now adding record numbers of hospitals and health facilities to our network every month. I think they are just getting started
@zipline
test site is rapidly validating all new SW/HW systems for the next gen home delivery service. Here's first multi-vehicle deconfliction flight (paths are set for vehicles to collide)
@zipline
is honored to partner with Pfizer to engineer new ways of safely and equitably delivering Covid-19 vaccine at multi-national scale. We're excited to support one of the most important missions for humanity in 2021
All of this progress is possible because we have been operating an automated logistics system at national scale for the last 18 months, delivering over 20% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside the capital. 4,000 commercial deliveries done by an amazing team
Last week,
@zipline
released a software update that allows our distribution centers to launch and recover aircraft simultaneously. Gives a sense for the scale of commercial operations today
The
@zipline
team is getting very excited to show the world what we’ve been working on for the last year. Announcement is next week. We may or may not have had a successful first flight of this new product in Rwanda today
Hitting new records and making our first deliveries of
@Novartis
products at new
@zipline
distribution center in Eastern Rwanda! Three days ahead of schedule
Zipline wouldn’t be the company we are today if it weren’t for the visionary leadership of
@PaulKagame
and
@RwandaGov
, plus the patient partnership of
@RwandaHealth
over the last 5 years. Truly proud of what we’ve achieved together and we’re just getting started
Excited to finally announce our partnership with the Philippine Red Cross today in Manila. We plan to deliver blood to 40m people across the country.
@DickGordonDG
is a visionary Red Cross leader
Now we're back to the day to day grind of operating an autonomous instant delivery system at national scale. We added 7 new hospitals to the
@zipline
network in Ghana today.
A big part of scaling successfully means we need to have many vehicles flying simultaneously to meet customer demand. Team just set a new record with ten autonomous Zips out making deliveries from one DC ✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️
Night operations at a distribution center. A large portion of Zipline is WFH, but a small group of us are doing what’s necessary to continue making deliveries to patients
One of the hospitals
@zipline
serves in Ghana made a sign for our delivery area. Zipline is contracted to serve almost 2,000 health facilities in Ghana alone, so maybe we need to mass produce...
By choosing Zipline, they’ll keep cars off the road and CO2 out of the atmosphere. This will make roads safer and cities greener. We’re building a more convenient future so you can spend less time running errands and more time with friends and family.