So far in the Drone Disruptors series, we’ve taken a look at two distinctly different players in the drone delivery space. Israel-based Flytrex hopes to become the drone of the U.S. suburbs, flying over residential neighborhoods and airdropping cups of coffee to your backyard. Then there’s Volansi, headquartered in the Bay Area, a company seeking to fly in more remote areas – including over the ocean.
But for this week’s installment, we sat down with a company that wants to bring drones to the least remote places in the world: cities.
“We want to show how drone city networks work,” Andreas Raptopoulos, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Matternet, told Modern Shipper. “Our vision is that a city like San Diego or San Francisco or Miami or Berlin or London should use drone delivery as one critical piece of infrastructure.”
Raptopoulos envisions a citywide drone nervous system, with drones flying above the streets between urban nodes from which they can send and receive packages. In this week’s edition of Drone Disruptors, Modern Shipper sat down with Raptopoulos to talk health care, traffic and integration.
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But for this week’s installment, we sat down with a company that wants to bring drones to the least remote places in the world: cities.
“We want to show how drone city networks work,” Andreas Raptopoulos, co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Matternet, told Modern Shipper. “Our vision is that a city like San Diego or San Francisco or Miami or Berlin or London should use drone delivery as one critical piece of infrastructure.”
Raptopoulos envisions a citywide drone nervous system, with drones flying above the streets between urban nodes from which they can send and receive packages. In this week’s edition of Drone Disruptors, Modern Shipper sat down with Raptopoulos to talk health care, traffic and integration.
Continue reading: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drone-disruptors-matternet-is-taking-cities-into-the-skies
