Keller Rinaudo: How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
Keller Rinaudo: Hur använder vi drönare för att leverera blod och rädda liv?
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.
inte kan utvecklas i Afrika.
to help the continent advance
att hjälpa kontinenten
can't provide for itself.
inte har tillgång till.
technology like robotics
in the developed world,
i den utvecklade världen,
Africa is falling behind.
att hamna på efterkälken.
who's spent a lot of time here in Africa.
som spenderat mycket tid här i Afrika.
electric autonomous aircraft
elektriska autonoma drönare
and health centers on demand.
och vårdcentraler på beställning.
automated delivery system
automatiserade leveranssystem
on the potential of this technology
genom att se potentialen hos denna teknik
för att leverera
of the country's blood on demand.
som efterfrågades i landet.
units of blood a year.
mellan 60- och 80 000 blodenheter.
that when you need it,
storage requirements,
that using this technology,
att använda denna teknik är att
more blood centralized
when a patient needs something
in an average of just 20 or 30 minutes.
20-30 minuter.
so ... better to show.
så är det bäst att visa.
outside of Kigali.
nine months ago,
var detta ett majsfält,
in a couple weeks.
can send us a WhatsApp,
ett meddelande i WhatsApp,
spring into action.
Center for Blood Transfusion;
for Blood Transfusion;
knows where the blood is going;
vart blodet ska;
pack it into a Zip,
these little autonomous airplanes
dessa små autonoma flygplan
to 100 kilometers an hour
från 0 till 100 km/h
the end of the launcher,
directs traffic)
controller calling it in
and drops the package.
och släpper paketet.
simple things are best --
pappersfallskärm - enkla saker är bäst -
to the ground gently and reliably
och tillförlitligt
one minute before we arrive, saying,
en minut före ankomsten,
to save a patient's life.
för att rädda sin patients liv.
happen from our distribution center;
as it makes a delivery at a hospital
of that vehicle on the screen.
over the cell phone networks.
just like your cell phone does,
av SIM kort som mobiltelefoner,
over the cell network
and how they're doing at all times.
och teknisk status.
we actually buy family plans --
men vi köper faktiskt storpack -
about 20 percent
at an accelerating rate.
i snabb takt.
blood in this way,
actually place multiple orders every day.
skickar flera beställningar varje dag.
waste against access.
mellan tillgång och svinn.
you keep everything centralized.
så bör man centralisera lagringen.
are having emergencies,
the medical product they need.
de behöver på sjukhuset.
a lot of medicine at the last mile,
lagras mycket medicin i närheten,
så att patienten ska få rätt medicin.
the medicine they need.
vilket blir kostsamt.
a lot of medicine out,
att den rwandiska regeringen
government has been able
what they need instantly,
less blood at the hospitals.
has increased substantially
zero units of blood have expired
inte kasserat något blod
by any other health care system
hälsovårdssystem i världen,
delivering medical products instantly,
medicinska produkter,
came into one of the hospitals
kom en 24-årig mamma in
och hon hade börjat blöda.
and she started to bleed.
of her blood type on hand
blod tillgängligt
via Zipline's routine service,
via Ziplines rutinservice,
with a couple units of blood.
in about 10 minutes.
och de räckte inte längre än tio minuter.
is in grave danger --
oavsett var i världen det sker.
who were taking care of her
our distribution center,
delivery after emergency delivery
på akutbeställning
seven units of red blood cells,
sju enheter blod,
in your entire body.
emergency deliveries like that,
sådana akuta beställningar,
behind most of those emergencies.
finns en liknande historia.
a doctor save a mom's life,
rädda en mors liv,
it's not a Rwanda problem,
sker inte bara i Rwanda,
Rwanda was the first country
var det första land
to do something about it.
för att agera.
of Africa being disrupted
can out-innovate large, rich ones.
till de stora och rika.
the absence of legacy infrastructure
kan övervinnas genom att direkt
and better systems.
cellular networks were about to roll out
var på väg att nå ut till
that you were crazy.
to connect and empower people.
skulle ansluta människor.
flows through M-Pesa,
av Kenyas BNP genom M-Pesa,
relies on that cellular network.
är beroende av det mobila nätverket.
serving private health care facilities,
med privata vårdgivare,
payment platform
leads to more innovation.
som leder till mer innovation.
in developed economies
is technologically impossible,
at national scale in East Africa.
not just Rwanda.
och inte bara i Rwanda.
this same technology
of a wide range of medical products
av medicinska produkter
people in the country.
som är svårast att nå.
autonomous system anywhere in the world.
autonoma systemet i världen.
of what this looks like,
distribution centers.
runt distributionscentralen,
around the distribution center,
of health facilities and hospitals,
till hundratals vårdinrättningar,
of the population of Tanzania,
av Tanzanias befolkning
multiple distribution centers.
lifesaving deliveries every day,
livräddande leveranser varje dag,
over 1,000 health facilities
att serva över 1 000 vårdcentraler
is moving really fast.
generate compounding gains.
in this infrastructure for health care,
i denna infrastruktur för hälsovård,
that they can use
som kan användas för
at these distribution centers are local.
är från lokalbefolkningen.
engineers and operators.
ingenjörer och operatörer.
automated delivery system
automatiserade leveranssystem
companies in the world
basic access to medicine
grundläggande tillgång till medicin
som är svårast att nå.
of you, it's so philanthropic."
så filantropiskt."
that we sign with ministries of health,
med hälsovårdsministerier
sustainable and scalable.
är 100 procent hållbara och skalbara.
about correcting that misperception
den missuppfattningen
is the only force in human history
i mänsklighetens historia
of people out of poverty.
människor ur fattigdom.
is going to sustainably employ
kan ge hållbara anställningar
unga afrikaner.
may have gotten 10 years ago
kunde fått för 10 år sedan
dramatically by technology.
that are tackling these global problems
som tar itu med globala problem
in developing economies?
i utvecklingsekonomier?
and entrepreneurs are totally blind
och entreprenörer är blinda
of NGOs or governments,
eller regeringars domän,
I left something out of the video
att jag utelämnade något i videon
to the distribution center.
where we operate.
to decelerate the plane
to zero in half of a second.
på en halv sekund.
that plane as it comes in,
onto an actively inflated cushion.
på en uppblåst kudde.
of an aircraft carrier
av ett hangarfartyg
varför jag ville sluta med den här videon.
why I wanted to end with this video.
and the teenagers
at the distribution center early
we begin operation.
getting good seats.
för att få bra platser.
it's a sky ambulance."
technology companies of Africa
framtida teknikföretag i Afrika
to be up to these kids.
att hänga på dessa barn.
of Rwanda and Africa.
of our shared future.
that future is if we realize
är om vi kan inse
can scale in Africa,
kan växa i Afrika,
can start here first.
kan starta här först.
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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