ZIPlINE’s Kofojer and CEO Keller Clifton Charts Charts Charts is a blood transportation for rescue transfusions, including high-profile partnership with Walmart, Chipotle, Panera and Mayo Clinic. Zipline’s good health efforts and commercial supplies are part of a radical, a radical, new transport network that meets the dream of consumers for vision and speed.
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I am watching the evolution of zipline for years. Did you first open my radars to use drones to use drugs in Africa, and then did you see Drone delivery for restaurant and retailers? And then of course. You have recently announced a wide partnership with Walmart to provide supply in Texas in the Dallas region. How different is it to do with a Walmart, tell me, a hospital in Rwanda?
When the zipline launched, our back plans were in automation and robotics, and it seemed to be possible to build an automated logistics system for the place. We saw all of these logistics failures. I mean, first of all, logistics really serve only gold billion people. If you are in 7 billion people in gold in gold, your login or no water. As a result, about five and a half million children die every year due to the lack of access to basic medical products.
Thus, it will save vital, save time, you have felt that it is possible to use robotics and autonomy to solve logistics in a completely new way that will save time. In fact, because we actually act in the first eight years of the company that operates in Africa alone. We were 20 people when we started commercially in 2016. No one believed that it went to work. Everyone thought it was a stupid idea. And investors convinced us that we will receive an autonomous and quick to fly, and to do what we want to fly, which is necessary to do the repentance and the need to fly quickly and reach great distances
Even a conservative regulator will roll the red carpet and said we need to find a job that we work together as partnerships and working with us. And this was the first partner of the Ministry of Health in Rwanda, and how it started. We started to transfer blood with blood transfers to 21 hospitals throughout Rwanda.
How much is the social impact when you think ziplin is now? How much does the affect affect the environment?
Interestingly, these three things were the main parts of our mission from the first day. The first three years to get rid of life, both for four years, and the governments, but also a large part of our work. There was always the main task of the transition to the Logistics to the future of zero emission. The motorcycle or motorcycle or trucks were fully electric and more efficient to get the products that traveled. Today, 75% of the national blood supply of the Rwandan is repenting outside the capital. In the last 18 months, we have vaccinated about 22 million doses. And then expanded to all medical products. Then the animal expanded to health and animal vaccines. Then quickly expanded to deliver goods and items to items. Now we are building a new national postal service on top.
People can impress, well, you have started this high stakes with a lifestyle and now you have added some kind of comfort to get your lunch. However, it really belongs to the financing of social-minded things. Is there a retail business to finance social-minded work? If I heard you right, you always wanted to go more and this is a more systematic effort, saying that the social part of it is a way to go to it.
Well, I want to say that people deserve to go out to life-saving medical products. They also deserve to be included in the economic opportunity. I want to say that these things are important. If you are trying to start a business and live in a country’s rural part, if you don’t have access to logistics, you can’t start your work. If you are trying to buy products for your family, you have the right to buy the best products or cheapest products that can be available in the store in the store.
Therefore, I think logistics plays a bigger role in our lives. Logistics should serve all the people in the world equally, and this is a promise to promise to bring autonomy and robotics or carry in logistics. Reduce logistics costs dramatically, delivery faster but more universal [a way] You can save your life. You can save money and time to people. I mean all is important. It is true that this is probably not comparing to a mother of a mother to a mother with blood transfusion to a mother, and this is what we do in the first four years of the company’s history. But our customers really took us here.
Is there a difference in a commercial area like a Walmart or Panera store?
The same product, the same regulator paradigm, the same operations and maintenance, the same application. Yes, it really builds a product and it’s just automated logistics. And it turns out that everything is only 10 times and there are many important usage cases to compile a way to convey a way to people who have 10 times and zero emissions. Immediate delivery request increased sharply. I want to say that it is now not in the United States but also for an international level, but for consumers. We use the technology of 100 years old to serve this student. Thus, we think that today is not surprising that the road we solve the problem is really inefficient and bad for the environment and expensive. With a new market, you want to build a new technology that can serve the market.
Your drones are autonomous, so do not manipulate from a joystick to move and guide them. How much is it from Panera and how much happens to my house?
Thus, the zipline builds the largest Drone delivery system on earth. It is a robotic company that designed each part of the system, which is about 60 kilos, 8-meter wings, which is the plane. We deliver 8 pounds of cargo. These vehicles can fly from 25 to 150 miles from 25 to 150 to 150 depending on which system we are talking to the system. Zipline is a client order application that can use all software, all adjustment programs, consumers. We prepare flight management algorithms, multivechicle deconfisition, communication architecture. The reality is that it took time to build all these different parts of the stack to make the technology, reliable, reliable in all weather conditions.
The zipline has already been drove about 100 million commercial miles. This means that our largest commercial autonomous system on earth. This is back to the moon and 200 times to put this number to the perspective. Or this is the equivalent of driving every way in the United States 24 times. Thus, people can still be impossible to deliver Drone in the United States or have not been promised and made us by this great technological company. The reality is actually working and working on the scale of technology.