# @kallaway on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeR4cwxOEzU
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-09T15:58:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kallaway (@kallaway) — https://gondola.cc/kallaway

## Caption

DoorDash is completely reinventing the food delivery space.

And I don’t think people realize what they’re actually doing under the hood.

Last week they announced a ton of new features at their annual event.

The biggest one, to me, was their ultraquiet food delivery drone, DoorDash Air.

This thing can fly straight from the restaurant to your yard, overtop of all the traffic and dramatically reduces delivery times.

But it turns out, the drone program is only a small piece of their master plan.

I sat down with Stanley Tang, one of the original Co-Founders and Head of Labs at DoorDash.

He was the mastermind behind Air and runs their R&D Labs.

And what he said really surprised me…

The secret sauce at DoorDash isn’t just the drones…it’s the entire delivery operating system layer they’ve built to sit underneath.

DoorDash now has lots of different ways to deliver your food.

They’ve got Dashers, the human drivers, Dot, the autonomous robots, and now Air, the drone fleet.

When an order comes in, they’re able to intelligently route and deliver it in the fastest and most cost efficient way possible.

As they build more and more methods for delivery, including things like drones and other autonomous vehicles, this will increase their ability to serve customers. 

That orchestration layer underneath is the secret sauce behind why they’re so effective.

Stanley also broke down how they’re planning to use AI in their new Text Doordash feature as well as how he runs the R&D Lab to come up with new breakthroughs.

And it’s clear they are doing everything they can to pioneer the future of delivery.

#ai #tech #doordashpartner #robot #drone @doordash

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drone, robot, ai, doordashpartner, tech

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