Michigan Medicine to deploy autonomous drones for prescription delivery

Once it opens sometime in 2024, Michigan Medicine’s new specialty pharmacy facility on Joy Road in Dexter will offer a first-of-its-kind prescription delivery system in our state; using fully electric autonomous drones. The health system is teaming up with Zipline, the maker and operator of the drones, which have already streamlined deliveries of blood and COVID vaccines in Rwanda and Ghana. In the United States, Zipline operates in Utah, North Carolina, and Arkansas. Its pilot program at U of M is a first for Michigan.