DoorDash unveils its own drone delivery service after FAA approval

The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house. DoorDash DoorDash has offered delivery by drone in some markets with the help of partners for several years. Now, the company is expanding on those efforts with its own drone operation. DoorDash said the Federal Aviation Administration has granted it a Part 135 air carrier certification, allowing it to run a commercial drone delivery service. It's one of eight operators to receive that designation so far, alongside the likes of Wing, Amazon's Prime Air and Flytrex. The DoorDash Labs robotics and autonomy team, which also created the Dot delivery robot, developed the DoorDash Air drones and infrastructure in-house. "We want drone delivery to work for any merchant, anywhere," Harrison Shih, head of DoorDash Air, said in a statement. "We