Amazon is rolling out its ultra-fast delivery service, Amazon Now, in dozens of cities in the US, promising deliveries of groceries and household essentials in 30 minutes or less. Amazon says the service is also now widely available in Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth, and will rapidly expand into Austin, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Denver, Oklahoma City and more throughout the rest of 2026. If Amazon Now is available in your area you'll see a 30-Minute Delivery option in the Amazon app or on the homepage when you're in a browser. Amazon Now offers will also be highlighted when you're browsing products. You can search by category, and as well as groceries and basic household items such as eggs, diary and laundry detergent, you can also order select electronics on the service, which Amazon says operates 24 hours a day in most places.

A new collaboration with Alphabet's Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky. Starting today, eager customers of the US pizza restaurant chain Papa Johns living in one corner of southern North Carolina will have the opportunity to receive their food from the sky, thanks to a new collaboration with Alphabet's drone company, Wing . But Papa Johns' signature pizzas won't be on offer. Instead, drone-loving North Carolinians will have to choose between three kinds of sandwiches, a newer product for the fast-food chain: Philly cheesesteak, chicken bacon ranch, or steak and mushroom varieties.

Flytrex has partnered with Little Caesars to deliver full pizza orders by drone in Wylie, Texas, with food arriving in roughly four and a half minutes.

'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone Amazon has become the first retailer in the UK to start a drone delivery service with a limited launch in Darlington, County Durham. Packages weighing less than 5lb (2.2kg) and containing everyday items such as beauty products, batteries and cables are now being delivered within a 7.5 mile (12km) radius of Amazon's fulfilment centre. The tech giant is convinced there is demand for ultra-fast deliveries and hopes to slowly expand the service. Rob Shield let Amazon use an Airbnb on his farm for its first test runs. Initially it was a novelty, so we were ordering everything under the sun, he says.

The June 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting (2nd left) was released under the Freedom of Information Act. The June 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting (2nd left) was released under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials' concerns revealed Health officials fear Palantir's reputation will hinder the delivery of a "vital" £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped. In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump's ICE operation, to build an AI-enabled data platform to connect disparate health information across the NHS . Now it has emerged that after Keir Starmer demanded faster deployment, Whitehall officials privately warned that the public perception of Palantir would limit its rollout, meaning the contract would not offer value for money.

Wing's drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts The service expansion will reach Walmart customers in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Miami and other US metro areas. Don't be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150 more Walmart locations in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Miami and more metros that have yet to be announced. According to Wing, its top 25 percent of customers have ordered its delivery drones up to three times a week. To meet growing demand, Wing and Walmart said it will serve up to 40 million US customers and build up a network of 270 delivery locations by 2027.

The company's shares are worth $1.4tn on the back of hopes for self-driving cars and robotics. The company's shares are worth $1.4tn on the back of hopes for self-driving cars and robotics. Tesla endured tough year in part thanks to some consumers' distaste for Elon Musk's embrace of rightwing politics Tesla has taken the unusual step of publishing sales forecasts that suggest 2025 deliveries will be lower than expected and future years' sales will be well below targets set by its chief executive, Elon Musk . The US electric vehicle maker published figures from analysts suggesting it will announce 423,000 deliveries during the fourth quarter of 2025, in a new "consensus" section on its investor website. That would represent a 16% decline from the final quarter of 2024.

The autonomous delivery robot Lomby, which began operating in Minami-Osawa. In May 2025, outdoor deliveries using the Lomby, stylized as LOMBY, autonomous delivery robot began in the Minami-Osawa area of Hachioji City in western Tokyo -- one of the pilot areas for Smart City Tokyo, an initiative to unlock Tokyo's potential through digital technology. Customers can now use the 7-Eleven delivery app 7Now to order items from Minami-Osawa stores, and have them delivered directly to their homes. We spoke to Tomoharu Uchiyama, CEO of Lomby Inc., the startup behind the robot's development, to learn more about building new logistics models for the future. The challenges we face in an aging society include labor shortages, and a growing number of those with limited access to groceries--those who find it difficult to go out and shop.

These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door. Plant-Based meal kit services are a modern miracle for vegetarians and vegans, who usually aren't afforded the same conveniences as meat eaters or those without dietary restrictions. We at WIRED love meal kits, because they're all about modern convenience--you can eat what you want, even if you're on a specialty diet or have strong food preferences, without ever leaving your house. Gone are the days of grocery shopping and scouring online for recipes; these contemporary plant-based meal kit services do the heavy lifting for you using curated menus and algorithms, with choices for both premade microwavable meals and kits where you do the cooking yourself. Some plant-based meal kit services, like Hungryroot, use AI customization to curate menus based on your specific tastes. Others, like Daily Harvest, have a set selection of choices so you can always keep your freezer stocked with plant-based, gluten-free meals to have on hand. I'm vegan, so I know how difficult it can be to find new recipes that will actually taste good without breaking the bank. Plus, plant-based meal kits are a great way to try out new foods and recipes, especially if you're looking to switch to a healthier diet in the new year.

Our research investigates the complex task of multiple autonomous agents learning to coordinate and deliver packages in warehouse environments--a problem requiring implicit communication, collision avoidance, and efficient task allocation without centralized control. Traditional warehouse automation relies on centralized planning systems that face scalability limitations; multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) offers an alternative through decentralized learned policies, but requires solving the credit assignment problem. We compare MARL algorithms on warehouse coordination: QMIX [Rashid et al., 2018] (value decomposition), IPPO (independent learning), and MASAC (centralized critic). Our study progresses from MPE for validation to RWARE for warehouse evaluation, culminating in Unity 3D deployment where agents demonstrate learned package delivery behavior. QMIX emerged as the best performer after systematic comparison. Our contributions: (1) hyperparameter analysis showing default configurations fail on sparse-reward warehouse tasks, (2) comparative evaluation across algorithms and scales, (3) Unity ML-Agents integration demonstrating sim-to-sim transfer with successful package delivery, and (4) identification of scaling challenges. Full experimental details and results are documented in our Quarto documentation book. 1