How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives | Keller Rinaudo

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🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Keller Rinaudo wants everyone on earth to have access to basic health care, no matter how hard it is to reach them. With his start-up Zipline, he has created the world's first drone delivery system to operate at national scale, transporting blood and plasma to remote clinics in East Africa with a fleet of electric autonomous aircraft. Find out how Rinaudo and his team are working to transform health care logistics throughout the world -- and inspiring the next generation of engineers along the way.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features robotics entrepreneur Keller Renaudo, recorded live at TED Global 2017.
0:08.7	You know, most people think that new technology or advanced technology can never start in Africa.
0:18.3	Instead, they think that the best way to help the continent advance is by providing aid
0:23.9	or services that the continent can't provide for itself. So while we see advanced technology
0:30.6	like robotics and artificial intelligence growing exponentially in the developed world, those same
0:36.4	people are worried that technologically backward Africa
0:39.1	is falling behind.
0:41.2	That attitude couldn't be more wrong.
0:45.6	I'm a robotics entrepreneur who spent a lot of time here in Africa,
0:49.8	and in 2014, we created Zipline,
0:54.2	which is a company that uses electric, autonomous aircraft, And in 2014, we created Zipline,
0:58.2	which is a company that uses electric, autonomous aircraft
1:02.0	to deliver medicine to hospitals and health centers on demand.
1:06.2	And last year, we launched the world's first automated delivery system
1:08.4	operating at national scale.
1:10.2	And guess what?
1:12.3	We did not do that in the U.S.
1:14.3	We didn't do it in Japan,
1:15.5	we didn't do it in Europe.
1:18.5	It was actually President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Ministry of Health
1:21.7	that made a big bet on the potential of this technology
1:25.3	and signed a commercial contract
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