Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Why replace a machine ambulances already have? 🩺

10 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Ambulances use diagnostic machines that cost $3,000 per unit and lack internet connectivity. A proposed replacement costs $225 and adds AI capabilities, but one speaker questions whether the AI actually does anything useful in practice.

ICOs already have these machines. Yes. Ambulance already. Why would somebody replace it? What's the catch of replacing?
None of those devices are IoT or AI enabled. Number 2, they are legacy devices which do not have any kind of intelligence into it. Any hospital, this costs somewhere around $3,000. We have something for $225 for the hospital. Larger hospitals, when they replace their systems, it's a better device at a lower price.
You know, your device is cheaper, but I didn't get the AI part. And what is the use of that AI?
It pulls in all your patient data from whichever modalities which you had. For example, you might have done an X-ray a year back, and today you did an audiometry sound. We correlate your information from any of the information which you've done earlier, and we give you predictive analysis.