United Parcel Service holds 1 FAA action, per the DEPLOY registry.
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Overview
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global logistics company with $88.7B in annual revenue and ~460,000 employees, operating autonomous delivery drones through its UPS Flight Forward subsidiary and deploying 1,400+ warehouse robots from partners including Locus Robotics and Geek+ across its network. The company is investing $9B in automation across 60+ US facilities as part of a four-year plan announced in 2024, including a $120M order for 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co. UPS Flight Forward was the first company to receive FAA Part 135 Standard certification for drone delivery operations in October 2019.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
CEO
Revenue
Employees
Financial stage
Automation investment
Warehouse robots
Pickle Robot order
Drone subsidiary
Drone partnership
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company United Parcel Service has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Geek+1× joint3 total
- 2Locus Robotics1× joint5 total
- 3Matternet1× joint4 total
- 4Pickle Robot1× joint2 total
- 5Waymo1× joint19 total
Most recent
- UPS x Pickle Robot2025-12-15with Pickle Robotoperating
United Parcel Service on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Carol Tomé CEOSEC-verified
Media (1)
Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.
Safety record
No incidents on record for United Parcel Service.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
United Parcel Service on the data-center map
Every verified data center United Parcel Service operates that has a mapped coordinate (2 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
United Parcel Service data centers (2)
- UPS Ramapo Ridge Data CenterMahwah · operating
- UPS Windward Data CenterAlpharetta · operating
AI data centers United Parcel Service operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
United Parcel Service in third-party press
Partnerships
5 total · 4 operating · 1 just announced
Every company United Parcel Service has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- UPS x Pickle Robot2025-12-15with Pickle Robotoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Geek+1× joint3 total
- 2Locus Robotics1× joint5 total
- 3Matternet1× joint4 total
- 4Pickle Robot1× joint2 total
- 5Waymo1× joint19 total
All 5 partnerships
open in the atlas →- deployment—operating
- deployment—operating
- UPS x Geek+withGeek+3deployment—operating
- UPS x Waymo ViawithWaymo19deployment—just announced
- deployment2025-12-15announcedoperating
Regulatory filings (1)
- faa_actionfaa action · us_faaactive2019-10-01
Timeline
Every recorded move in United Parcel Service’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipUPS x Pickle Robot
2025-12-15UPS ordered 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co. for 20M, part of its B automation plan. Robots will deploy across multiple UPS facilities starting late 2026.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJul 23, 2026
United Parcel Service logo
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
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Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for United Parcel Service.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning United Parcel Service from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Is United Parcel Service Finally Turning the Corner?
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United Parcel Service, Inc. 2026 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation
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UPS to hire 100,000 temporary workers ahead of peak holiday season
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Teamsters president throws down gauntlet to UPS: Strike coming in 2028
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UPS Releases 1Q 2026 Earnings
UPS announced Q1 2026 consolidated revenues of $21.2B, reaffirming full-year 2026 guidance of ~$89.7B revenue.
UPS Purchases 400 Robots to Unload Trucks in Automation Push
UPS investing $120M in 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co., part of its $9B automation plan. Deployment starting late 2026.
5 ways UPS Velocity orchestrates industry-leading service with AI and automation
UPS Velocity facility features 700+ robots in operation with smart automation, machine learning, and AI from Geek+ for goods-to-person technology.
UPS Flight Forward - Wikipedia
UPS Flight Forward Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary focused on drone delivery, first to receive FAA Part 135 Standard certification in October 2019.
UPS operates first ever U.S. drone COVID-19 vaccine delivery
UPS Flight Forward made first US COVID-19 vaccine drone delivery for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, NC, using custom cold chain packaging.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, iQ Healthtech Labs Launch Drone Delivery Service with UPS Flight Forward
UPS Flight Forward begins operating Matternet M2 drones from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center campus in Winston-Salem for medical deliveries.
UPS Flight Forward Achieves FAA's First Full Approval for Drone Delivery
UPS Flight Forward received the first FAA Part 135 Standard certification, allowing unlimited remote-controlled drone delivery operations in the US.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/ups.md
- RSS feed: /companies/ups/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f2e67ee6-215a-49dc-b3d0-080279961a18
- Revision history: /companies/ups/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious60/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
United Parcel Service draws attention at the 42nd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among sidewalk robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 3, 2026