Highlights:
• Swiggy is commencing drone trials.
• 4 startups are selected for pilot project.
Drone startups by Swiggy will replenish stocks between seller -run dark stores and from a store to a common customer point.
4 selected startups
Four drone startups have been selected by swiggy for a pilot project that involves carrying out supply runs for the food delivery platform’s grocery service Instamart. Across two tranches, the selected 4 startups are Bengaluru- based Garuda Aerospace Pvt Ltd, New Delhi- based Skyeair Mobility Pvt Ltd, ANRA + TechEagle Consortia and Hyderabad- based Marut Dronetech Pvt Ltd . These drone startups will replenish stocks between seller-run dark stores and from a store to a common customer point.
How the startups will work
A deliver partner will pick up orders from the common point and deliver them to a customer’s doorsteps. The pilot will take place in Bengaluru and Delhi- NCR.
When tranche’s will start
The work of Tranche 1, comprising Garuda Aerospace and Skyeair Mobility will start from May, and the second tranche, comprising ANRA+TechEagle Consortia and Marut Dronetech will commence after that, Swiggy added.
The blog post by Swiggy said “our intent is to use valuable learnings from the first tranche and design a tranche 2 experiment to specifically address any shortcomings that are identified”.
This development comes in response to a Request for Proposal (REP) that Swiggy had floated a few weeks back. The food delivery platform said that it received 345 registration in total, and chose the four startups after an evaluation process covering legal, financial, and technical rounds.
