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Robot Talk Episode 103 – Delivering medicine by drone, with Keenan Wyrobek


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20 December 2024



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Claire chatted to Keenan Wyrobek from Zipline about drones for delivering life-saving medicine to remote locations.

Keenan Wyrobek is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Zipline, the world’s first drone delivery service whose focus is delivering life-saving medicine to the most difficult to reach places on earth. Prior to Zipline, Keenan was a co-founder and director of the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage. He was involved in launching the Robot Operating System (ROS) and shipping PR2, the first personal robot for software R&D. Keenan has spent years delivering high tech products to market across a range of fields including consumer electronics and medical robotics.




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