 "Alphabet's drone delivery business Wing to launch service in Europe next year")
Google parent Alphabet Inc’s drone delivery business
**Wing** will launch its first European delivery service in Finland in the spring of 2019, it said in a statement on 4 November. Wing was spun out of Alphabet’s X research division in July to become an independent company within Alphabet and is led by James Ryan Burgess. [caption id=“attachment_5554211” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Google’s Self-flying delivery drone. Image: Wing by Google[/caption] Wing said www.wing.com/finland it has spent the last 18 months testing drone delivery in south-eastern Australia, partnering with local businesses to deliver a range of food and drinks, medicine and household items. It is part of Alphabet’s Other Bets division, which already comprises cyber-security company Chronicle, self-driving car project Waymo, Loon that makes internet-delivery balloons and life sciences division Verily.
Wing will launch its first European drone delivery service in Finland in the spring of 2019.
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