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Romotive
Zipline is an American company that designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones. The company operates distribution centers in Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, the United States, and Nigeria, with signed agreements to begin service in Cote d'Ivoire, Cote d'Ivoire, and Kenya. As of April 2022, its drones have made over 20 million miles of flights across 275,000 commercial deliveries. The company's drones deliver whole blood, platelets, frozen Plasmapheresis, plasma, and Cryoprecipitate reduced plasma, cryoprecipitate along with medical products, including vaccines, infusions, and common medical commodities. As of September 2021, more than 75% of blood deliveries in Rwanda outside of Kigali use Zipline drones. In April 2019 in Ghana, the company began using drones to deliver vaccines, blood, and medicines. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a Part 107 waiver to Zipline's partner organization Novant Health for the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keller Rinaudo
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur and the CEO and a co-founder of Zipline. Zipline began drone deliveries in Rwanda in late 2016, and primarily delivers blood to urgent medical situations. He was also the CEO and a co-founder of Romotive, a former company established in 2011 with Kickstarter funding that made inexpensive small robots that use mobile phones as their computing system, machine vision system, and wireless communication system. Romotive essentially shut down in 2014 and morphed into Zipline. Rinaudo Cliffton presented a TED Talk about Romotive in April 2013 and another in November 2017 about Zipline. Education Early education Rinaudo Cliffton attended North High School in Phoenix Arizona, receiving an IB diploma and being named a National Merit Scholar. College and internships Rinaudo Cliffton is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was the founder of the Harvard climbing wall. The wall was initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
