Steve VarsanoFounder at The Jet Business

The world's first medical delivery drone. ⛑️

Name: The world's first medical delivery drone. ⛑️
Uploaded: 2024-07-09T20:03:36+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Steve Varsano
Description: In this interview excerpt, Tom, a co‑founder of Wingcopter, outlines the company’s purpose and achievements in medical drone delivery. Wingcopter…

9 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Tom, a co‑founder of Wingcopter, outlines the company’s purpose and achievements in medical drone delivery. Wingcopter designs, manufactures, deploys, and services autonomous delivery drones, aiming to build logistic networks that span countries and eventually continents. The core mission is to close the massive global healthcare access gap highlighted by the WHO, by providing rapid, on‑demand delivery of life‑saving medicines. Tom cites concrete deployments: delivering medicines in Malawi in partnership with UNICEF, collaborating with the Red Cross in Japan alongside major partner Itochu, and a new partnership with Siemens Healthineers to transport laboratory samples in Kenya. He emphasizes the ambition to create the world’s best delivery drone and to scale these networks worldwide. The excerpt ends with a prompt about when the company started, but no answer is provided.

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My name is Tom. I'm one of the founders of Wingcopter, a drone delivery company. We manufacture, but also we deploy and service delivery drones. So we build drone logistic networks across countries, later on hopefully continents. We really laser focus on improving medical supply chains to give access to healthcare. World Health Organization report, it's more than half of the world's population which lacks access to good healthcare. So we see there's a huge gap and our drone can bridge this gap, literally take off anywhere, and then within minutes deliver on demand to wherever it's asked to deliver. So we are delivering really these life-saving medicines in Malawi with UNICEF. We have worked with Red Cross in Japan with our big partner Itochu. We have now started a collaboration with Siemens Healthineers, which is the healthcare segment of Siemens. They are operating in basically all countries in the world, and we are now focused on starting in Kenya to deliver laboratory samples between the labs. I just want to build the world's best delivery drone. When did you start