Zipline Reviews and Details

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• We are engineers from Zipline, the largest autonomous delivery system on Earth. We’ve completed more than 550,000 deliveries and flown 40+ million miles in 3 continents. We also just did a cool video with Mark Rober. Ask us anything!

  We are Zipline, the world’s largest instant logistics and delivery system. Four years ago we did an AMA after we hit 15,000 commercial deliveries – we’ve done 500,000+ since then including in Rwanda, Ghana, the U.S., Japan, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Nigeria. Source: over 3 years ago

• Sergey Brin's Largest airship built in US since 1930s

  Yeah, I'd take an osprey or helicopter for that use case. People w/out infrastructure usually need things fast. Or maybe https://flyzipline.com/ which uses drones. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Why are Self Driving Cars a "Feasible" future, but not "Self Flying Planes"?

  There's some pretty cool stuff happening with unmanned planes, like Zipline or Wingtra. Source: about 4 years ago

• Humanitarian cruise missiles?

  See Zipline, they deliver meds to remote villages in Africa. Source: over 4 years ago

• Drone delivers lungs for transplant to Toronto hospital in world 1st, health network says

  Well this company has been operating for a while now (first saw the article in youtube) https://flyzipline.com/, and a google search shows a 90 mile range. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Autonomous vehicles create new problems and solves none

  Https://flyzipline.com/ Not so much replacing existing solutions but providing one that couldn't have existed before. At least as far as things go right now. Outside of that autonomous drones have made things like mapping and other aerial sensing problems quite a bit cheaper. My personal take is that delivery people will be amongst the last jobs to be automated as there is a lot of complexity involved. From my... - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Footage of Australian Raven Attacking a Wing Drone in Canberra, Australia

  Well these guys say they've delivered quite a few packages with their drones. To hospitals. https://flyzipline.com/ Coffee wasn't on the agenda it seems. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

  It has to be doable with cartel money; there is at least one startup doing drone delivery in Africa: https://flyzipline.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

  Zipline has been successfully delivering medical supplies by drone for several years in Africa. Not sure if they're profitable yet. https://flyzipline.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• Thinking about a job change: what companies in bay area are doing good for the world?

  Friend left FAANG to go here https://flyzipline.com/ very happy with mission. Source: about 5 years ago

• A-10 landed on a highway today in Michigan

  Nice. Kinda reminds me of zipline but with a more advanced guidance/drop system. Source: about 5 years ago

• The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

  There's an American company[1] in Ghana sending medical supplies around the country with small launchable planes.[2] 1: https://flyzipline.com 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbRVNxL44c. - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago

• Rocket Mail delivery was the next big thing in the 30s. The idea never really took off though.

  Interestingly enough looks pretty similar to this modern concept, which is used to deliver medical supplies to hard-to-reach areas in Africa https://flyzipline.com/. Source: about 5 years ago

• Domino's Self-Driving Delivery - It was wild seeing an ad for this.

  Will you settle for this? https://flyzipline.com/. Source: about 5 years ago

• Anyone know what frame Zipline uses?

  I'm interested in learning about what frame Zipline uses for their long distance delivery operations, but I haven't seen anything like it. Does anyone have an ID on the frame? Or do you think it's proprietary? Source: about 5 years ago

• I wanted to interview at companies doing good in the world, and then I built a job board for other engineers who want to do the same.

  Disclaimer: I work for Zipline. I feel fortunate to have found a company that I think is doing good, and also building some interesting technology. I am hiring for positions at Zipline and would love to be on this list. Source: about 5 years ago

• How far away do you think we are from drone deliveries?

  I actually think we aren’t looking at urban spaces for drone deliveries, but remote areas that have like one household every 10 miles or something. As drone batteries get better and automatic recharging stations are set up, it could be a lot more cost effective per unit of delivery than having a human drive half an hour for one delivery. But autonomous vehicles could also fit the bill here, so drones would be for... Source: over 5 years ago

• I get paid for doing this...

  I'm part of the Flight Testing team for Zipline. It's a fun role. I know a number of other commercial drone companies have Flight Test Ops roles open as well. It's a good career path for people who have skillsets built in the FPV hobby. Having experience with autonomous flight and fixed wing or transitioning VTOL platforms helps too. Generally these teams have a good number of "entry level" positions available... Source: over 5 years ago