How a High-Tech Drone Fleet Is Changing Medicine in Rwanda
Rwanda's wild terrain hinders the speedy delivery of medical supplies to remote hospitals - so this drone delivery company sought to revolutionize those requests
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Rwanda is famous for its tall volcanoes, vast mountains, and deep jungles. But this wild terrain poses a problem for speedy delivery of medical supplies to remote hospitals that need them. Enter Zipline, a drone delivery company with a fleet of drones that are revolutionizing medical requests in Rwanda.
Zipline's goal is to be able to service all 500 health facilities in Rwanda using its two distribution centers. Check out this episode of Field Trip to hear from Zipline General Manager Joseph Ndagijimana and find out more about how the drone delivery company is revolutionizing medical supply delivery in Rwanda.
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This is one of the places you would least expect to see this technology, but it one of the places that can benefit from it the most.
in other nations like the US or UK there is to much air traffic, but in Rwanda its actually genius, at least until they can build enough infrastructure to make the drones obsolete. (though who knows when or if that will ever happen)
@@speedy01247 yeah not only air traffic I think military wouldn't allow it, it mess up with their systems.
@@speedy01247 I do agree, I actually explained this to my other half. Rwanda is also a very up and coming country in Africa. This would definitely not work in most of Africa. As a former Zimbabwean, i know it would just be taken over by the government or robbed and fail very quickly.
Why would you least expect it here? It is where it is needed, there are educated people to develop the system and obtain the funds to start the company. I truly fail to see why you think that development of a system wont happen where it is needed.
@@emilmckellar4932 true. The most advanced technologies are found implemented mostly in developing countries. Look at Kazakhstan with regards to solar power...
It's always tears me up to see good news about Rwanda. Knowing that this country went through the darkest hours during the 1994 genocide.
What a great idea and should be replicated around the world where needed.
This reminds me from V1 Rocket launch site😂
actual efficient use of resources
What a great idea! They fly around and give people blood. It's a reverse vampire bat.
Yes you are write
@@abhayprasad9580 A mix between right or white?! :P
@@user-bl4oq7fd8d ooh yeah it's big brain time
Perhaps a "Vampire Tab"?
This thing has exist for 3 year lol
Best use of drone tech I have seen. Well done! I like the low cost drones, not so bad when one lose one and cheaper fleet expansion. Brilliant
the best idea i have ever seen being implemented successfully .... all the best of luck to zipline
Rwanda the new African Miracle!! This country inspires me so much to work hard everytime and be innovative..
As an engineering student, this is one of the coolest displays of human ingenuity I’ve seen and to see an actual implementation of fixed wing UAVs making what they are designed to do best, long distance flights is encouraging for continue to develop that technology.
Zipline should start pizza deliveries...that's a million dollar idea 😜😁🤗, but Medicines should be the first priority for companies like Zipline.
rather it be used to deliver medicine, cause my dad once worked at a place that delivered medicine here in the US and there was more then one time where he went out (delivering specific medicines to places) and got called back like an hour later cause the person died or something. (idk much about the specifics, but it was in Wisconsin, I just remember the one time where he called me and asked if I wanted something to eat since he was called back and would be home soon, I had asked what happened and he said the person died, I should also note this was like 2 years ago not 10 or 20)
@@speedy01247 they could make more money from pizza delivery when they don't need to deliver the medicine and use that to money get resources that they need.
I would love to see the multitude of mush you'll get after your pizza falls from the drone 20 meters up.
Hope you're neighbours are not hungry and greedy. Also you need to invent a "drop proof" pizza.
Delivering pizza is a really bad idea for a business especially in Africa where people have much other basic needs to finance. The pyramid of Maslow.
The amount of good things i hear about Rwanda is amazing. This country is going places.
But their corrupt Government isn't.
Wow! Good job Rwanda!
This is just so incredible. Drone delivery in the US is largely a novelty, but what Zipline has created in Rwanda is excellent.
#rwanda - back from the brink, never ceases to impress.
Reel :Wakanda Real : Rwanda
Small country with latest technologies. Very good
This is amazing!!!! 😍
What a fantastic and smart way to maximise efficient medical delivery in a country with poorer transport infrastructure, such as Rwanda but also a great pathfinder in innovation for any remote area delivery service. Props for the story Seeker👌🏻
Future is indeed exciting...
That is beyond amazing!!! The power of technology 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Murika, this is the way to do drones, not to cowardly murder civilians but to help them! Rwanda, keep the awesome coming.
funnily enough zipline is an american company, but I do agree with your point to an extent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipline_(drone_delivery)
@@speedy01247 and there are thieves and murderers in Rwanda too! That doesn't diminish the awesomeness of this thing, or of Zipline. Similarly, Zipline being American doesn't diminish the awfulness of those drone killings perpetrated by the Murikan government.
My country does big things man🇷🇼🇷🇼 Ain't nothin new!😄
what cuntry?
This is frigging brilliant!!!!
This is completely thrilling!
Amazing company! Hope the best for them as the future needs them.
One word. AWESOME!
This is marvelous and so important for parts of the world's where infrastructure is lacking or damaged. I hope their cost model allows them to continue this service indefinitely.
Absolutely brilliant!! Very well done to Rwanda 🇷🇼to have the vision to embrace such new, modern technology. It’s made so many incredible positive steps forward in delivering emergency medical supplies.
drone's are amazing!!!!!!
This is freaking awesome
This is brilliant !
Great stuff Rwanda 🇷🇼👌
That's amazing 😊 ♥
Great video, more content on tech please!
Real engineering and Wendover Productions already did this, but still cool tho
Something like this can always use more coverage
I was like "Hey I've seen this one before "
This is so awesome!!
this is fricking amazing!
We need this in America. Deliver vital cases of remdesivir to patients.
This is fantastic.
Brilliant💎
This is a wonderful solution! Very good service for sure!
Wow, now that's an awesome system!!! Good job sir..
Really a cool idea, best of luck to zipline!
GO Rwanda!!!
Lovely Rwanda 🇷🇼
Fantastic!
Love to see it
LOVE it!!!
Amazing tech
Wow!! That's a cool medicine delivery service 👍
Good use of technology
Awesome!!
Love this it's a great idea.
Seen documentary about it, thanks for reminding.
Wow. Impressive.
Brilliant
Awesome!
Wakanda forever
I remember reading about this in one of the IEEE spectrum magazines. Impressive stuff.
It's a cool looking drone I like it
Wakanda forever!!
It's becoming a reality...
really loved their innovative. wish you guys grow more and keep helping people like this... ♥️♥️♥️from🇮🇳
India is as well. Their space industry is developing really fast. 🇬🇧🇮🇳
@@ElHal04 thanks bro... yes ISRO is doing well in this pandemic period. hope they do more and our Govt keep supporting them. as well as our Pvt companies companies come front to take part. hope ongoing pandemic situation is over soon for the world.
Good job.
That’s sweet
Now thats wakanada tech .
Remember folks. The most important skill in starting a business is the ability to come up with a good name or just have a cool last name
Really proud that ma country is making tech moves..... Though that guy's accent is disapproving of the rest of us...... I mean ma English is pretty good 🤷🏾🤷🏾
You could have stop at the first sentence.
Rwanda becoming Wakanda!
Good deal!!
*What a beautiful country* ... *they absolutely love their nature* ...
Cool. It could be used in the bush in Canada.. some of the northern areas should give it a try
Guys expand your company. Please do it.
They are so much bigger now than this video makes you believe! They got and will get more "airports" where drones can take a battery swap to fly even further There are great videos about them
I remember this from prototype this
this is an awesome stop gap for those countries who's roads bite rocks and don't have a good internal transportation infrastructure.
If every destination had an anemometer linked to the drones, then every drop can land in exactly the same spot with precision having factored in wind speed, direction and drone velocity. I'd recommend that only if possible cargos are fragile, needing a soft landing cushion. But otherwise, Damn this is awesome! I love it!!
The drone knows exactly what the wind is doing by comparing it's ground speed with its airspeed and it's track Vs. Heading. Apparently it takes the wind into account when it drops it payload to try and hit the same spot each time.
🔥👌
That launching pod almost like V1 rocket
Did they say how much time it took for the supplies to deliver?
If I was a millionaire I would love to donate to this and services like it.😁😍😎
holaaa muy buen video deseo que sigan haciendo material de calidad!!! Voy a continuar mirando sus creaciones. Les envio un abrazo nos vemos luego ❤️👍🏽
Remember the competition for something like this but never seen the results, maybe it was this one?!
So good seeing projects that actually benefit people going successfully! One question: where does the financing comes from?
Why would the algorithm for my youtube account keep this from me for almost two weeks after upload! This story is a delight.
What are the root and tip airfoils? Is there a NACA number?
I already watch this video years ago
Nope. It's a new video. But I've watched other videos on this topic before.
A damn innovative idea. One question tho, where do they get supplies from?
The drone center is the supply center.
@Arthur Wellesley Generally multiple different companies and the like, who may themselves manufacture the item, or otherwise procure the item needed from another region/supplier/etc. Sometimes it may be one or two kinds of item from a single organization, or it may be larger scale deals with a company/organization/whatever that provide a wide array of medications and supplies from many different places that initially produce/distribute them. Often times it can be all kinds of different mixes of these models, but that's a rough idea that generally applies.
This reminds me of the Ready Player One movie
Where can I apply?
How great and clever we could probably cut that delivery time up with more drone development
cool! (but they need to work on the landing for delivering more sensitive things. the one we saw looked pretty rough! maybe a better parachute? maybe a catching net at the hospitals?)
They pack it well enough to absorb the impact. Check out wendover and real engineering channel's video on the same thing
That is awesome. How do I help financially?
How much cost for one delivery service
The drop mechanism seems pretty low tech & like it could drop the package to an inaccessible place - are they working on making that more reliable?
Re run They showed this months ago. Probably made a few edits to it and just uploaded it or took down the old 1 and re uploaded it.
For one of the poorest countries this is a win.
Here in New York we continue to test and develop drone rules and regulations with the FAA to help make routine drone deliveries like this a reality in the United States!
If only the USA would think like this instead of money and politics
What is the range of the drone?
I think they send 150 kilometers away
The assembly ladies should really be putting those wings on from behind. If it accidentally fired from where they do it now, it could seriously hurt them. Vs if they made the small change of facing the other direction while assembling the drone they would be much safer.