TED Talks
Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that
TV-PG
2013 • E223 Nov 21, 2013 15mA billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric autonomous flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods and supplies wherever they are needed.