More than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, such as blood and vaccines. Stanford-trained roboticist Keenan Wyrobek paved a different path by developing drone technology.
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Keenan Wyrobek was looking for a big problem in health care to solve—and on a trip to Tanzania, he found one. There, doctors told him about not being able to get the blood and medicines they needed to treat patients. People were dying of treatable illnesses, all because the roads were bad or the supplies weren't close enough.

The trip inspired Wyrobek to co-found Zipline, a California-based company that ferries supplies to remote health care sites using specialized, insulated drones. The company is currently delivering blood to hospitals in Rwanda via a local distribution center, and there are plans to expand to other countries.

Here, he fills in details about the video above and talks about what's next.

[My co-founder and I] were

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