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How Drones Are Bringing Emergency Services to Remote Places

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The Wall Street Journal

Technology

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Autonomous aviation is making medical aid more accessible and emergency response time shorter than ever. In this conversation from WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival in May, GoAERO CEO Gwen Lighter and Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton share how their respective companies are looking for ways to revamp medical access in hard to reach places. They tell WSJ’s Alex Ossola about the new industry they are forging without a roadmap.  What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free The Future of Everything newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sometimes, getting aid where it's needed most is challenging.

0:40.3

Supply lines aren't always smooth or efficient.

0:44.3

Roads can be sparse or poorly maintained.

0:47.3

So emergency services might need to get off the ground and into the air.

0:52.3

Helicopters are phenomenal tools, great emergency response, but they require a pilot.

0:58.5

They are expensive to procure, incredibly expensive to operate over the term of their lives,

1:05.0

and they have some difficulty getting in and out of tight spaces.

1:08.6

That's Gwen Leiter. She's the CEO and founder of Go Arrow, a company aiming to save lives by creating aircraft

1:15.9

that don't need pilots and can maneuver into spaces that are difficult to access.

1:20.5

Or, as she explains it, we are building the world's first autonomy-enabled emergency response flyer.

1:29.3

High-tech aircraft that deliver the people and the goods when there's a crisis,

1:36.0

when there's a everyday medical emergency, natural disasters, that's where we come in.

1:42.5

Lighter isn't the only CEO that's looking to autonomous aviation to make medical aid faster and more accessible.

1:49.0

It's also an issue Keller Renato Clifton is tackling with his company, Zipline.

1:54.0

Zipline operates the largest drone delivery service on Earth.

1:57.0

We focus on healthcare, quick commerce, and food.

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