Drone deliveries in London?

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Drones! Guys and St. Thomas' Hospital in London have started a pioneering trial using drones to deliver blood samples between the two sites. Sound simple, but this is one of the most regulated airspaces on the planet so how did they do it? Plus Katie and Danny get nostalgic for Christmas Tech past.

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0:00.0	Do, have you gone to any Christmas jumper parties?
0:05.5	No.
0:06.3	I mean, I don't think we don't have them.
0:08.2	But my kids have Christmas jumper day.
0:11.1	And this is actually my eldest daughter's jumper.
0:13.1	And I just have a nasty feeling that when she gets home in about half an hour,
0:17.9	if I'm still wearing it, there'll be a kind of, the door's going to crash.
0:20.5	Oh, that's my jumper. Yeah. about half an hour. If I'm still wearing it, there'll be a kind of, the door's going to crash out and go,
0:20.9	that's my jumper.
0:25.1	Merry Christmas, Katie Prescott,
0:27.3	technology business editor at the Times.
0:30.4	Happy holidays, Danny Fawtson,
0:32.4	U.S. West Coast correspondent
0:33.7	for the Sunday Times.
0:36.2	This is the Times Tech podcast with a treat for the holidays.
0:41.6	Yes, today we're going to bring you a conversation, or actually a couple of conversations
0:45.5	that I've been having about a really cool tech development here in the UK.
0:50.1	And we've talked about flying cars in California.
0:53.4	But now it's time for drones in the middle of London tan.
0:59.9	I hope we don't drone on about it.
1:02.6	Oh, yeah.
1:04.7	Sorry.
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