Health drugs shipped by solar drones network in Africa, study AAV

A Flying Autonomous Delivery System For The Developing World

Need medicine,

these drones can bring it AAVs

Solar powered network of AAVs

Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to all-season roads--meaning a large portion of the world's population can't get medication, food, and other supplies when they need them. The Matternet, a concept created by a group of students in this summer's class at Singularity University, aims to leapfrog road-based transportation altogether with a network of electric autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) in the developing world that transports supplies and people from place to place.

No roads blood test by Air

The problem of transporting goods in the developing world, where in some places it can take up to a month for an HIV blood test to get to a lab and back. "We want to shift the paradigm and say, do you really need roads?"

solar-powered recharging stations

200kg to 1ton cargo range 10km to

next recharge point

During the second stage, the autonomous vehicles will carry 200 kilograms, and automated solar-powered recharging stations will be installed on the ground. In the third stage, the vehicles will be able to carry up to 1,000 kilograms--so they will be able to transport both goods and people. The prototype AAVs are quadcopters that have a range of 10 kilometers, but the technology may change as the project advances.

Haiti

Dominican Republic to fund a pilot project. "They're assisting a lot in the reconstruction of Haiti, so they're very interested to look at this type of aircraft to deliver goods and medicine,"

source: fastcompany.com