Keller Rinaudo: How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
קלר רינאודו: איך אנחנו משתמשים ברחפנים כדי לשלוח מנות דם ולהציל חיים
Keller Rinaudo is CEO and co-founder of Zipline, building drone delivery for global public health customers. (He's also co-founder of Romotive, makers of the tiny robot, Romo.) Full bio
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can never start in Africa.
לעולם לא תתחיל באפריקה.
to help the continent advance
לעזור ליבשת להתקדם
can't provide for itself.
technology like robotics
in the developed world,
Africa is falling behind.
who's spent a lot of time here in Africa.
electric autonomous aircraft
בכלי טייס חשמליים אוטונומיים
and health centers on demand.
ומרכזי בריאות לפי דרישה.
automated delivery system
מערכת המשלוחים האוטומטית הראשונה בעולם
on the potential of this technology
of the country's blood on demand.
מנות הדם של המדינה לפי דרישה.
units of blood a year.
that when you need it,
storage requirements,
that using this technology,
שבשימוש בטכנולוגיה הזאת
more blood centralized
when a patient needs something
in an average of just 20 or 30 minutes.
תוך 20 או 30 דקות בממוצע.
so ... better to show.
אז... עדיף להראות.
outside of Kigali.
nine months ago,
in a couple weeks.
תוך שבועיים שלושה.
can send us a WhatsApp,
יכולים לשלוח הודעה בוואצאפ
spring into action.
Center for Blood Transfusion;
knows where the blood is going;
pack it into a Zip,
these little autonomous airplanes
to 100 kilometers an hour
the end of the launcher,
directs traffic)
controller calling it in
and drops the package.
simple things are best --
פשוט זה הכי טוב --
to the ground gently and reliably
one minute before we arrive, saying,
דקה לפני שאנחנו מגיעים האומר:
to save a patient's life.
כדי להציל את חיי המטופלים.
happen from our distribution center;
as it makes a delivery at a hospital
איך שהוא מבצע את המשלוח לבית החולים
of that vehicle on the screen.
over the cell phone networks.
just like your cell phone does,
ממש כמו לטלפון הסלולרי,
over the cell network
and how they're doing at all times.
we actually buy family plans --
אנחנו קונים חבילות משפחתיות --
about 20 percent
at an accelerating rate.
blood in this way,
actually place multiple orders every day.
waste against access.
you keep everything centralized.
חייבים לשמור את הכל בשיטה מרוכזת.
are having emergencies,
the medical product they need.
a lot of medicine at the last mile,
מחזיקים הרבה תרופות בקילומטר האחרון,
the medicine they need.
a lot of medicine out,
government has been able
what they need instantly,
את מה שהם צריכים באופן מיידי,
less blood at the hospitals.
has increased substantially
zero units of blood have expired
by any other health care system
לא השיגה את התוצאות האלו
delivering medical products instantly,
שליחת מוצרים רפואיים באופן מיידי,
came into one of the hospitals
הגיעה לאחד מבתי החולים
and she started to bleed.
of her blood type on hand
via Zipline's routine service,
with a couple units of blood.
in about 10 minutes.
is in grave danger --
who were taking care of her
our distribution center,
delivery after emergency delivery
seven units of red blood cells,
in your entire body.
emergency deliveries like that,
עשינו כ-400 משלוחי חרום כמו זה,
behind most of those emergencies.
a doctor save a mom's life,
לרופאים להציל חיים של אמא,
it's not a Rwanda problem,
Rwanda was the first country
היא המדינה הראשונה
to do something about it.
על מנת לפתור את הבעיה.
of Africa being disrupted
פורצי דרך באפריקה
can out-innovate large, rich ones.
יותר טוב מכלכלות גדולות ועשירות.
the absence of legacy infrastructure
and better systems.
cellular networks were about to roll out
היו עומדים להפרש
that you were crazy.
to connect and empower people.
ונתנו להם כח.
flows through M-Pesa,
זורם דרך M-Pesa,
relies on that cellular network.
על גבי הרשת הזאת.
serving private health care facilities,
מוסדות בריאות פרטיים,
payment platform
leads to more innovation.
מוביל לעוד פיתוח.
in developed economies
is technologically impossible,
על גבי רחפן בלתי אפשרית טכנולוגית,
at national scale in East Africa.
not just Rwanda.
this same technology
of a wide range of medical products
מגוון רב של מוצרים רופאיים
people in the country.
הקשים ביותר להגיעה במדינה.
autonomous system anywhere in the world.
הגדולה ביותר בכל העולם.
of what this looks like,
distribution centers.
around the distribution center,
של 70 קמ' מסביב למרכז ההפצה,
of health facilities and hospitals,
מרכזי רפואה ובתי חולים,
of the population of Tanzania,
מאוכלוסיית טנזניה,
multiple distribution centers.
lifesaving deliveries every day,
המצילים חיים בכל יום
over 1,000 health facilities
תשרת יותר מ-1000 מרכזי בריאות
is moving really fast.
generate compounding gains.
in this infrastructure for health care,
בתשתית הזאת למערכת הבריאות,
that they can use
בה הם יכולים להשתמש
at these distribution centers are local.
הם מקומיים.
engineers and operators.
automated delivery system
האוטונומית היחידה בעולם
companies in the world
basic access to medicine
להביא גישה בסיסית לרפואה
על המשימה הזאת,
of you, it's so philanthropic."
that we sign with ministries of health,
עם משרדי הבריאות,
sustainable and scalable.
about correcting that misperception
על תיקון התפיסה המוטעית הזאת
is the only force in human history
of people out of poverty.
is going to sustainably employ
לא יעסיק באופן בר קיימא
may have gotten 10 years ago
dramatically by technology.
that are tackling these global problems
שעובדים על בעיות גלובליות
in developing economies?
בכלכלות מתפתחות?
and entrepreneurs are totally blind
of NGOs or governments,
של הארגונים הלא ממשלתיים או הממשלות,
I left something out of the video
to the distribution center.
where we operate.
to decelerate the plane
to zero in half of a second.
that plane as it comes in,
אחרי המטוס הנכנס,
onto an actively inflated cushion.
of an aircraft carrier
why I wanted to end with this video.
לסיים בסרטון הזה.
and the teenagers
את הילדים והנערים
at the distribution center early
we begin operation.
getting good seats.
it's a sky ambulance."
technology companies of Africa
פורצות הדרך באפריקה
to be up to these kids.
of Rwanda and Africa.
of our shared future.
that future is if we realize
לבנות את העתיד היא אם נבין
can scale in Africa,
can start here first.
יכולה להתחיל פה קודם.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Keller Rinaudo - Robotics entrepreneurKeller Rinaudo is CEO and co-founder of Zipline, building drone delivery for global public health customers. (He's also co-founder of Romotive, makers of the tiny robot, Romo.)
Why you should listen
As CEO and co-founder of Zipline, a drone delivery company focused on health care, Keller Rinaudo works with the country of Rwanda to make last-mile deliveries of blood to half of the transfusing facilities in the country. The ultimate goal is to put each of the 12 million citizens of Rwanda within a 15–30 minute delivery of any essential medical product they need, no matter where they live.
Zipline is also working with GAVI, UPS, USAID and several other countries in East Africa. The company is a team of 60 aerospace and software engineers headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It's funded by Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Paul Allen, Jerry Yang and Stanford University. Rinaudo is also a professional rock climber ranked top 10 in sport climbing. He has scaled alpine cliffs in France, underwater caves in Kentucky and the limestone towers of Yangshuo, China.
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