Matternet Inc., transportation using a network of unmanned aerial vehicles, Palo Alto, California, USA

Matternet is the next paradigm of transportation using a network of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Matternet Vehicle flying in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti delivering medicine to the clinic of Petionville Camp.

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Andreas Raptopoulos is the founder and CEO of Matternet, launching a new paradigm for transportation using a network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

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A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric autonomous flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies wherever they are needed.

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A small Silicon Valley startup called Matternet has been developing drone delivery technology for several years now. The company's co-founder and CEO Andreas Raptopoulos' TED talk from this past summer about the potential to use small drones for delivery purposes has garnered more than 200,000 views since it was posted online last month — and perhaps helped to inspire Bezos himself, as Bezos used some of the same language used in Raptopoulos' TED talk when unveiling the concept of Amazon Prime Air on 60 Minutes. Colleen Taylor talks with the Co-Founders of Matternet, Andreas Raptopoulos & Paola Santana.

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