Zipline launches an entirely new drone fleet every four to five months
Keller Rinaudo · a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare · Jan 2, 2019 · at 19:32
Keller Rinaudo, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, discusses Zipline's rapid hardware iteration cycle for medical drone deliveries.
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“So right now we're, we are designing, manufacturing, and operating a completely new fleet of vehicles about every four or five months. That's new airframe, new avionics, new everything.”
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