Don’t miss Zipline on the Drone Radio Present! Keenan Wyrobek and Juan Albanell of Zipline discuss in regards to the firm’s long-distance Platform 1 supply service and the corporate’s plans to scale short-distance Platform 2 residence supply companies.
Keenan Wyrobek is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Zipline. Zipline is the world’s first drone supply service whose focus is delivering life-saving medication to essentially the most troublesome to succeed in locations on earth. The corporate designs, manufactures and operates the world’s largest autonomous logistics system. Used day-after-day by companies, governments and shoppers, Zipline’s totally electrical and autonomous drones scale back supply emissions by as much as 97% in comparison with fuel automobiles. It has flown greater than 70 million autonomous miles, and has delivered thousands and thousands of things together with greater than 15 million vaccine doses.
Previous to Zipline, Keenan was a co-founder and director of the Private Robotics Program at Willow Storage. He was concerned in launching and rising the Robotic Working System (ROS) and transport PR2, the primary private robotic for software program R&D. Keenan has spent years delivering excessive tech merchandise to market throughout a spread of fields together with client electronics, sportswear, and medical robotics.
Becoming a member of Keenan on this podcast is Juan Albanell, Head of System Engineering, the place he has led engineering efforts to scale up Platform 1 internationally and is now centered on getting Platform 2 from prototype to first buyer releases. Previous to Zipline, Juan led a small crew at Apple engaged on taking rising sensing and show applied sciences from lab bench to automated manufacturing strains. He has devoted his engineering profession on taking early stage ideas to dependable buyer merchandise via a concentrate on take a look at and automation.
On this episode of the Drone Radio Present, Keenan and Juan discuss Zipline, its long-distance Platform 1 supply service and the corporate’s plans to scale short-distance Platform 2 residence supply companies.
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