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The next paradigm of transportation: Andreas Raptopoulos at TEDxKalamata

1,724 views · Published 29 October 2013 · 15:10 · Indexed 8 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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About the speaker:

Andreas Raptopoulos is the founder and CEO of Matternet and a speaker at TEDGlobal 2013 in Edinburgh. Matternet is building a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transport medicine and goods in places with poor road infrastructure. Andreas is a designer, inventor and entrepreneur who loves to work on pionneering ideas and building teams to make them a reality. Previously he founded FutureAcoustic, a venture that developed a new platform for music that listens and reacts to the user's environment. Driven by the desire to change the world and the belief that technology can be a force for immensely positive, widespread change. Matternet's "drones for good" use small, electric UAVs to transport packages weighing up to 2 kilos and containing items like vaccines, medicines or blood samples, over distances of 10 kilometers at a time. By creating a new paradigm for transportation that leapfrogs roads, Matternet is helping to revolutionize transportation in both the developed and developing world. Andreas holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics from the University of Patra, Industrial Design Engineering from Royal College of Art and Imperial College London and Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Singularity University.

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