Matternet, a startup building autonomous drones for delivery. This drive led to the development of the Matternet Station — an automated basestation for swapping batteries and payloads on the company’s drones. Packages ready to be fixed to a drone are placed into a drawer on the Matternet Station. A camera captures a QR code on the package which links it with a destination. Meanwhile, a storage bay of five batteries is made available to the drone. Everything happens smoothly and with minimal human interaction by design. Matternet supplies its technology (cloud + drone + station) to transportation providers. These providers then market to hospitals, offering peer-to-peer transportation that is faster than any traditional approach to logistics.
