Matternet

Well, I'm going to.

It's called Matternet.

They do drones, and they're wanting to come and sponsor, and so I was talking to the hotel.

I'm like, "Can we get them to, to drone in?" And they're like, "You, we can let them, we can let them drop in some food, but nobody can be outside for their rules."

I do wanna shift gears here to the drone space, bring Sam back into the conversation, and welcome our next guest.

Joining us, Andreas Raptopoulos, the founder and CEO at Matternet.

Andreas, thank you for being with us today.

Now, you say you started Matternet with the idea of building a new layer of transportation above our cities.

Take us through some of the developments since you started the company, and what now makes you believe that autonomous delivery is ready to become true infrastructure?

Thanks so much for having me.

Um, and, um, you know, what you saw in the video is that we have this new architecture, these docks that can be installed at the rooftops of the merchants that we're serving.

Um, this infrastructure can be invisible, dependable, low cost.

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Anyway, so this article is about AVISPL is partnering with Matternet, the world's only FAA-type certified drone delivery platform.

I don't know.

Is that the same group who does, like, Amazon and all the rest? Because there's a lot of those right now.

That's going to drive me nuts.

Go look it up while I'm doing other stuff here.

What was it? I'm trying to figure out what Matternet does and where they are.

Well, they're in a drone.

There's another story related to this, and I'm just gonna mention it ever so briefly.

Matternet.com mentioned that they are going to provide a service for replacement components for technicians working on cars, and I think that's a really good example.

If you need a $30 component for a car, why have the service tech leave the car dealership to go get a part when you can just have it sent out to you within a few minutes via drone? So a lot of great stuff happening in the world.

So the DOT is studying whether cellular networks can be part of drone traffic management infrastructure.

Here's the quote.

AVISPL officially announced a partnership with Matternet, the FAA type certified drone delivery platform.

And that's coming from Rave Pub's Peyton Scheel.

Quote, this partnership is an important step towards reimagining how critical equipment moves through our service ecosystem, says John Murphy, COO at AVISPL.

Quote, autonomous drone delivery can improve responsiveness, reduce transportation delays and create entirely new service capabilities for our customers.

Now, if you've ever needed a part when you're in midtown Manhattan during the workday or say anywhere in L.A. or Dallas and you're thinking about, oh, my goodness, somebody's got to drive this on a highway that's been stationary since 6 a.m., you get the idea.

Now, a lot of people are probably thinking, is this a legit effort or a really weird publicity grab? Matternet's pretty earnest about this.

They've been around since 2011.