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Much like using ride sharing, they'll get a text when it's saying,

hey, the product's one minute away, please step outside.

It's going to be delivered into your mailbox.

Dron delivery.

Items falling from the sky right to your mailbox with just the push of a button.

Are you excited?

Nervous?

They don't call them drones.

They just call them sky ambulances.

Keller Renato runs Zipline International.

To be clear, his drone delivery service isn't dropping off last-minute anniversary

presence or late-night takeout.

Zipline is focused on delivering medical supplies.

According to the WHO, over 5 million kids under the age of five die every year

due to a lack of access to basic medical products and care. Zipline regularly delivers

whole blood, platelets, fresh frozen plasma, and clotting products. These kinds of medical

deliveries are especially helpful in places

with unreliable roads and large populations living in remote and rural areas. Today, zipline

deliveries can reach just about any location across Rwanda and the entirety of Ghana, and they

just started to deliver in the U.S. So North Carolina's learning from Rwanda. Is that how you would characterize it?

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