Zipline drones take flight in Ghana, making it worlds largest autonomous medical-delivery network
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Dedicated to providing every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies, Zipline employs aerospace veterans from SpaceX, Google, Boeing and NASA to design and operate its autonomous systems, which can deliver a package within 30 minutes after a health-care worker places an order by text. "So much of the conversation these days is about this growing idea that tech is not benefiting a vast majority of people," said Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo. Access to vital health products worldwide has historically hampered the difficulty of supplying medicine from central storage to remotely located patients when and where they need it. In addition, Zipline is working closely with North Carolina to launch its medical drone delivery as part of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administrations UAS Integration Pilot Program. "World leading roboticists making it work at scale are the role models for the next million young engineers who are growing up in these countries and figuring out what they want to do with their lives," said Rinaudo.