Uber Adds Zipline Drones to Uber Eats With 1M Daily Delivery Goal

Uber is adding Zipline drones to its Uber Eats delivery network as part of a new partnership aimed at reaching one million drone deliveries per day by the end of 2029. The first deployments are expected to begin later in 2026, with Uber also making an undisclosed strategic investment in Zipline.

The companies plan to start service in markets where Zipline already operates before expanding drone delivery across dozens of U.S. cities. Uber Eats customers in supported areas will be able to receive eligible orders using Zipline’s autonomous delivery system, which the companies say can complete deliveries within minutes.

Uber expands its autonomous delivery network

The Zipline agreement reflects Uber’s broader strategy of bringing autonomous transportation technologies from external developers onto its platform rather than building every system internally. Uber already works with numerous autonomous vehicle companies across ride-hailing and delivery services.

Drone delivery is also not new to Uber. In September 2025, the company announced a partnership with Flytrex and described it as its first investment in drone technology. That agreement was designed to bring Flytrex drone deliveries to Uber Eats.

Zipline gives Uber another partner with an established autonomous delivery network. According to the companies, Zipline operates across four continents, has completed more than 2.7 million deliveries and has flown more than 135 million autonomous commercial miles. Its network currently makes a delivery somewhere in the world about every 20 seconds.

Uber targets faster Eats deliveries

Uber and Zipline are positioning the partnership around faster delivery of food and everyday products. Zipline says its technology can deliver items in roughly five to 10 minutes, while Uber can provide access to customers and merchants already using the Eats marketplace.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the companies see faster commerce as an important opportunity for the delivery business. The partnership is intended to combineUber’ss marketplace with Zipline’s autonomous aircraft rather than replace Uber Eats with an entirely separate drone service.

The investment also fits Uber’s increasingly partnership-focused approach to autonomous technology. In addition to delivery drones, the company has agreements with autonomous vehicle developers, including Baidu, Wayve, Rivian, and others, to bring driverless vehicles onto the Uber platform across different markets.

For Zipline, the Uber partnership provides access to a large consumer delivery platform as the company expands its U.S. operations. For Uber, it adds another delivery method alongside human couriers and autonomous ground systems, with the ambitious target of scaling the partnership to one million drone deliveries each day by the end of 2029.