Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There's a drone for that
安德里亚斯·拉托普洛斯: 没有路?无人驾驶飞行器来帮你!
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
手机给他们带来的巨大变化一样?
手机给他们带来的巨大变化一样?
today, about two kilograms,
甚至整个非洲大陆的范围。
technologies in a bit more detail.
using all sorts of vehicles
运输两公斤的物资。
运输两公斤的物资。
譬如试图穿越糟糕的道路,
requirements of the vehicles,
the vehicles through the system
运送医疗物资的情景,
运送医疗物资的情景,
但其实这样一次飞行所花费的能源的费用
但其实这样一次飞行所花费的能源的费用
要在某个地方建设这样一个网络到底需要多大的花费?
要在某个地方建设这样一个网络到底需要多大的花费?
建设一个运输艾滋病毒样本的网络。
建设一个运输艾滋病毒样本的网络。
the size of Manhattan.
这就是一个新的模式所带来的力量。
这就是一个新的模式所带来的力量。
和各种东西连接在一起,
将更好的疫苗送到数百万人的手里,
将更好的疫苗送到数百万人的手里,
战胜艾滋病、 结核病和其他流行病的优势。
战胜艾滋病、 结核病和其他流行病的优势。
that this is science fiction,
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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