A new, drone-shaped icon now appears within the DoorDash delivery app for certain customers in metropolitan Atlanta.
Tapping the icon will open a selection of restaurants at Tanger Outlets Locust Grove near the suburb of McDonough that deliver from Wing, the drone delivery arm of Google parent Alphabet. Per DoorDash, the small, buzzing aircraft will deliver to customers within 6 miles of the outlet in as little as 20 minutes.
Wing launched in Atlanta with Walmart in December, making it the first new market in their multistate expansion to 270 Walmart stores by 2027. At the time, it said flight time for Atlanta deliveries was on average five minutes or less.
Wing and Walmart have been delivering to customers in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2022 and in recent months have also added Houston and Charlotte, North Carolina. Planned future locations include Los Angeles, Miami, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Orlando and Tampa, Florida. In March, Wing announced plans to deliver in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition to Atlanta, DoorDash customers can request Wing delivery drones in Dallas-Fort Worth and Charlotte. The partners debuted in the U.S. in 2024 with a pilot service in Virginia.
DoorDash also has drone delivery partnerships with Israel’s Flytrex and Ireland’s Manna. Other delivery apps have jumped on the trend. Uber Eats collaborates with Flytrex and Manna as well. Grubhub in March launched its first drone delivery offering in New Jersey in partnership with Dexa. Beyond Wing, Walmart is working with Flytrex and Zipline.
DoorDash believes the delivery drones—and other future mobility options like sidewalk delivery robots—are here to stay.
“Autonomous delivery is an important part of how we’re making local commerce faster, more delightful, and more sustainable,” Harrison Shih, who leads the company’s drone delivery program, said in a statement.
How DoorDash Drone Delivery Works
Heather Rivera, Wing’s chief business officer, said Wednesday that the company completes thousands of drone deliveries every day.
In January, the company said its top 25 percent of customers in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta order three times per week. It also estimated that deliveries tripled between the first and final six months of 2025.
Atlanta residents can check Wing’s website to see if they are eligible for DoorDash drone delivery and have the option to join a waitlist. The drones are limited to a radius of six miles, meaning some residents will need to wait for more locations to come online.
Wing’s flagship drone uses vertical lift and cruise motors to power different propellers for the liftoff, hover, cruise, and touchdown phases of flight. It can carry up to 5 pounds of cargo traveling at 60 mph and about 150 feet, braving light wind and rain. A tether lowers packages to a location of the customer’s choice that can be as small as a picnic blanket. The DoorDash app tracks deliveries in real time.
Most of the drones’ operations, including flight planning and traffic management, are highly or fully automated. Store associates drop orders curbside for Wing’s Autoloader mechanism—installed on the side of a building or as a standalone mechanism—to secure them on the tether. Remote pilots keep an eye on the drones once they lift off.
In addition to drone-friendly items such as canned goods, the aircraft can carry refrigerated items, breakables, and over-the-counter medications.
Wing operates in the U.S. with Part 135 authorization and has completed more than 750,000 deliveries across three continents, per its website.