Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There's a drone for that
Andreas Raptopoulos: Mancano strade? Un drone le può sostituire
Andreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues are building the flying internet of things, using drones to carry essential goods to otherwise inaccessible areas. Full bio
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most advanced technologies
usando le tecnologie attualmente più avanzate
di fare un salto in avanti
entro qualche ora
today, about two kilograms,
di circa due chili,
che potrebbe coprire
technologies in a bit more detail.
a pilotaggio remoto.
using all sorts of vehicles
su una strada malridotta
all'interno del veicolo
verso queste stazioni di terra,
della missione,
una prospettiva affidabile
requirements of the vehicles,
the vehicles through the system
dopo il terremoto del 2010.
Sono veicoli molto solidi.
con questo veicolo
abbiamo capito che questo
una rete nel Lesotho
the size of Manhattan.
la grandezza di Manhattan.
delle infrastrutture.
questa è la forza
per un problema molto antico.
che costruiamo nel mondo
ci auguriamo
con vaccini migliori,
that this is science fiction,
sia fantascienza,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andreas Raptopoulos - Airborne logistics activistAndreas Raptopoulos and his colleagues are building the flying internet of things, using drones to carry essential goods to otherwise inaccessible areas.
Why you should listen
It's a modern-day truism that, in regions where the phone company never bothered to lay network cable, locals quickly adopted mobile phones -- and then innovated mobile services that go far beyond what so-called developed countries have. Could the same pattern hold true with roads?
Andreas Raptopoulos is hoping to find out with Matternet, a project that uses swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver urgent items -- think emergency and medical supplies -- to places where there are no driveable roads. Imagine a sort of flying bucket brigade or relay race, where autonomous quadricopters pass packages around a flexible network that behaves something like the internet -- but for real goods.
Raptopoulos is a designer, inventor and entrepreneur. Prior to Matternet, he founded FutureAcoustic, a music platform that adjusts to the listener's environment.
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