The pilot partnership with Wing, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is an attempt to expand that delivery range to a six-mile radius using a robot-to-drone multimodal delivery ...

Wing works with Walmart in Dallas and has done a drone delivery pilot with DoorDash and Wendy’s in Virginia. A spokesperson for Wing said the partnership would not be with Walmart.

The pilot project will see food items picked up at restaurants by Serve's robot. This will then make its way to an Autoloader within a radius of a few blocks for transfer to a Wing drone. Then the ...