TED Talks

Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that (2013x223)

Air date: Nov 21, 2013

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.