Delivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of Zipline

Welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So most people who live in cities have relatively easy access to emergency medicine and most hospitals in cities can get the supplies they need quickly. But in rural areas with fewer roads or with challenging terrain, it's a different story. In some parts of the world, it can take an entire day to get medicine or blood plasma to a distant medical facility. So a few years ago, an entrepreneur named Keller Renato Clifton decided to take on this challenge. And he's doing it. With drones.

Drones that are delivering critical supplies to hospitals in remote areas around the world. But before Keller launched Zipline, He started another business called Remotive. a robotics business that would eventually pivot into drones. The company basically built an application on an iPhone that turned it into a mini robot.

The more we saw smartphones scaling, the more we felt like hey, a lot of the components and and uh supply chains behind these phones. Are gonna enable a new kind of robotics company to be built. And so we were asking ourselves, what would

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