For decades, delivery was always the last slow link in technology, products advanced, platforms evolved, but the package still depended on traffic, traffic lights and human drivers, now that bottleneck is starting to disappear, not with promises, but with real numbers.

Zipline just surpassed the 2 million mark of commercial drone deliveries while raising more than $600 million in funding, raising its market value to $7.6 million. The announcement comes in conjunction with the company's expansion into Houston and Phillips in early 2026, followed by other large metropolitan areas later this year. Zipline already operates delivering food, sales products, and health supplies directly to customers' homes in a few minutes using fully autonomous aircraft.

The system works like an on-demand air logistics, the customer places the order through the application, the drone takes off automatically, takes an average of only 3 minutes and drops the package precisely at the destination, all without transit, without emissions, without human contact.

The numbers explain why this was no longer an experiment, zipline deliveries in the United States grew close to 15% week after week in the last 7 months, their aircraft have already traveled more than 200 million kilometers on autonomous commercial flights, delivering more than 20 million items without registering any serious accident.

The most impressive thing is the adoption curve, the company's first unit took 10 weeks to reach 100 daily deliveries, the most recent units reached the same volume in just two days, this signals an important turn. Drone delivery is beginning to behave as basic infrastructure similar to mobile internet or GPS.

Other companies follow the same path, Walmart and Wing plan a network with more than 270 drone delivery points until 2027, connecting cities from Los Angeles to Miami, now think with me, if drones can already deliver food, medicine and supplies in minutes without any pilot, because we still need to drive.