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Zipline Adds Rappelling Droid to Delivery Drones

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Initial customers include a couple of regional health systems in the United States, Sweetgreen restaurants , and the Government of Rwanda, with President Kagame himself as the very first customer.

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System

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We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. Visual sensors on the Droid find the delivery site and check for obstacles on the way down, while the thrusters compensate for wind and movement of the parent drone.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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We’ve been covering the drone delivery company Zipline in Spectrum for several years, and I do encourage listeners to check out our great onsite reporting from Rwanda in 2019 when we visited one of Zipline’s dispatch centers for delivering vital medical supplies into rural areas. Your range and long range and low cost.