Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.
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2.5M+ commercial deliveries and 13x marketplace growth in six months mean drone logistics is leaving pilot phase—Cleveland Clinic is a signal that high-stakes healthcare is comfortable with it. Hospital systems and retailers should be scoping where aerial delivery can relieve their most constrained last-mile routes.
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