Andreas Raptopoulos wants to use aerial drones to save lives.
Unmanned vehicle technology makes remote and hazardous areas accessible, whenever a family needs medicine but floods and muddy roads have cut off travel, a seasonal occurrence in some parts of Africa.
That idea soon became a start-up called Matternet – a network for transporting matter – which aims to help the one billion people who do not have year-round access to roads.
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