The human arsenal knows no real boundaries, and it has still never possessed an element more significant than that tendency of growing on a consistent basis. We can claim what we did because the stated tendency has empowered us to hit upon some huge milestones, with technology appearing as quite a major member of the group. The reason why we hold technology in such a high regard is, by and large, based on its skill-set, which ushered us towards a reality that nobody could have ever imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, if we look beyond the surface for a second, it will become clear how the whole runner was also very much inspired from the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component, in fact, did a lot to give the creation a spectrum-wide presence and start what was a full-blown tech revolution. Of course, this revolution then went on to scale up the human experience through some outright unique avenues, but even after achieving a feat so notable, technology will somehow continue to bring out the right goods. The same has turned more and more evident in recent times, and assuming Zipline’s latest move shakes out just like we envision, it will only put that trend on a higher pedestal moving forward.

Zipline has officially launched a new drone delivery system called P2 Zip, which is designed to turn the concept of drone delivery into something much more mainstream. According to certain reports, the P2 Zip can carry around eight pounds worth of cargo within a ten-mile radius and the time it needs to deliver that cargo is no more than 10 minutes. Another detail worth a mention here is how the technology is well-equipped in terms of landing packages on relatively smaller targets, such as someone’s doorstep or their patio table. On a practical note, the whole operation kicks through system of wires that lets down the package inside a specialized container called the “delivery droid.” Notably enough, in order to avoid causing any unnecessary disruption, the drone will also remain more than 300 feet above the ground at the delivery point.

“People are worried about noise, rightly. I’m worried about noise. I don’t want to live in a world where there’s a bunch of loud aircraft flying above my house. Success for us looks like being in the background, being barely audible.” That means something closer to rustling leaves than a car driving by. The P2 Zips have a unique propeller design that makes this possible. The fact that the Zip delivers from 300 feet up really helps a lot,” said Jo Mardall, head of engineering at Zipline.

Moving on, P2 Zip is designed to work as a freestanding dock, meaning the employees can load up the droid in both an outdoor setting and an indoor setting. This can eliminate the need for a business to conjure up drone delivery infrastructure at each one of its location.

Although Zipline’s previous P1 drones had a far better range of 60 miles, it would require a larger space to take off, land, as well as drop its payload. Then, once the drone used to return to the base after completing all deliveries, an employee would be given the task to disassemble it, set up a new one, and drop in a freshly charged battery for the next flight. The P2 iteration, on its part, can dock and power up autonomously through a charging station that is made to look like a street lamp.

The launch of a new drone delivery system provides an interesting follow-up to one Lancet’s study, which claimed that hospitals using Zipline services were able to reduce their total annual blood supply waste rate by 67%.

“That is a mind-blowing statistic, and a really big deal. It saves health systems millions of dollars, by reducing inventory at the last mile and only sending it when it’s needed,” said Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, CEO and co-founder of Zipline.

So far, the partners who have signed up to test P2 Zip-driven deliveries include restaurant brand Sweetgreen, Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City, Michigan Medicine, Multicare Healthcare System in Tacoma, Wash., and the government of Rwanda.