Alphabet’s Wing touts milestone in its growing drone deliveries

Customers can order online and Wing is increasingly automating flying operations, using computers to simulate the most efficient routes and allowing a single human to simultaneously monitor multiple drones at the same time. — Wing

Alphabet Inc’s Wing subsidiary is about to reach a milestone in the fledgling drone-delivery business: Any day now it will deliver its 100,000th package to a customer.

At its busiest delivery hub, in Logan City, Australia, the company earlier this month set a new internal record of 4,500 deliveries in one week. The system will one day be a far more efficient mode of transporting goods to people’s homes than what exists today, according to a top executive.