Safety
A Zipline drone flying for Walmart had a fault, opened its emergency parachute and came down on a street in Greenville, Texas. No one was hurt.
A crash, recall, injury or investigation
What the source says
“Nobody was hurt, and a Walmart employee showed up quickly to cover the aircraft with a tarp for recovery.”
What it means
Zipline, from Zipline, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. Safety events don't move a stage on their own, but they stay on the robot's record.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Zipline
- DroneXL counts more than 30 Zipline sites across the US, with more being added.
- A Zipline drone opened its parachute on the way to a pickup and landed on Highway 6 in Cypress, near Houston. DroneXL reports no injuries or damage.
- Cleveland Clinic announced it had begun drone delivery of some prescription medicines with Zipline, within five miles of its Beachwood campus in Ohio.
- Zipline said it had passed 2 million deliveries and raised more than $600 million, valuing the company at $7.6 billion.
- Zipline and Walmart started drone deliveries from the Walmart Supercenter in Mesquite, Texas, Zipline's first Walmart flights in Texas.
- Zipline said it had made one million paid drone deliveries worldwide.