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Matternet’s Swiss medical drone delivery network ‘world’s longest’

Posted on Dec 13, 2022,

Commercial delivery drone systems developer Matternet says it has begun trials on an aerial transport route in Switzerland connecting participating hospitals and labs in what it says will be the world’s longest urban network thus far.

Mountain View, California-based Matternet said the five-kilometer drone delivery path over Zurich will transport patient diagnostic samples between labs and the Triemli and Waid Hospitals, both of which are part of the municipal Stadspital Zürich system. Those automated UAV shuttles will be conducted as beyond visual line of sight flights (BVLOS), and seek to both increase the frequency of sample exchanges between clinics, and decrease the time required to make those journeys. 

Read: Drones to speed UK hospital transport of patient lab samples 

Matternet said the length of the routes involved, which will be flown in just seven minutes, make the new medical network the world’s longest drone delivery operation…

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Source: dronedj.com

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