Zipline - How Rwanda Built A Drone Delivery Service
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Question:
Why bother with the full catobar system?
Catapult is obvious, it means you don't have to carry the fuel to launch.
Also, it's much more rain proof.
They're not short of space, so why bother with the trap?
Why not just land on some tarmac?
The aircraft that launch and recover from catobar ships are super heavy because of all the extra strengthening they require.
And they still wear out twice as fast as regular aircraft.
So I don't see why the trap is a good idea.
The only things I can think of is:
1) They want to perfect a system that shows that Zipline can work in a crowded downtown area? Not just the boonies? Or on a ship? Are they after military contracts too?
2) it's really rainy and the tarmac run way isn't useable in the wet?
@@MostlyPennyCat Landing on a runway is pretty hard with an autonomous drone. Factor in wind, rain etc and you are going to need some pretty advanced fly by wire, or a skilled pilot at hand. The capture system requires neither.
@@MostlyPennyCat This design doesn't need landing gear, which saves weight and complexity. This saved weight can then be used to strengthen the fuselage structure. I'm not saying it is perfect, but to me it seems like the better option
@@khulhucthulhu9952 you don't need landing gear on planes which land on the ground either - skids or skid plates are viable, even for relatively large aircraft. I can't say whether it's better than the arresting wire used here, but it's definitely an option.
@@jealexander I think landing gear, skids or skid plates also could obstruct the package bay doors, or something. But a solution to this supposed problem could be rather easily made I guess
This is the kind of innovation that gets my heart pumping. This is absolutely incredible.
Same. I would love to work for Zipline. This is the sort of thing I live for.
This is also the kind of invention that will keep your heart pumping :)
for one, they'd have to hit either the batteries or the motors, which is not easy for something that goes 100km/h at whatever height. secondly, if they hit the batteries, they have a chemical fire to deal with. and they risk hitting the meds, which with their relative position are pretty much always in the way of the battery as far as I could gather from the video clips. so it's rather unlikely that people can shoot these things down without damaging the supplies one way or another
@@Colaglass safe is such an absolute term. I simply think that the probability that anyone can reliably take one of these drones out without damaging the medical supplies is rather unlikely. and if they wanted to go extra disencouragement, they could include about 3g of C4 in the drone above the cargo box that it detonates if unauthorised tampering is detected. nobody would want to go that way because explosives in the air are bad, but it already has enough lithium-ion battery packs loaded to make any TSA wet their pants in exitement.
@@Colaglass also, nice ad homonym.
wow, wow, wow!
this is the best thing i've seen in years!
I'm blown away.
thanks
Yup! I was saying "why such a detailed preflight check, they sure are taking safety very seriously" then I saw the capture system, redundancy, replaceable parts assemblys and so on and was totally blown away. THIS is an efficient, modern, safe, autonomous fleet!
This is literally aerospace engineering porn
Vondr Albra it really is.. such a great idea
Let's HOPE it inspires others
😎👍
Speaking or porn you now have 69 likes
couldn't agree more
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You know its a great day when RealLifeLore, RealEngineering and Wendover Productions upload at the same time
I knew i wasnt the only one happy about that!
And about the same topic
@@kapilsharma320 but different aspects of it
And all videos start with the same sentence
And they make the same video
I've spent my youth building and piloting RC airplanes and, during my freshman year in college, made a brief attempt to write a rudimentary autopilot for one of my RC airplanes. Seeing that someone made this a reality and contributes to a solution to a real-life life/death problem, fills me with joy!
Great work, Zipline!
so you're saying you came up with the idea first?
Someone, who I think might be a troll, asked a valid question: Do I claim to have come up with the idea of autopiloted RC planes first? And, of course, I don't. In fact, my interest in the matter (in the summer of 2011) stemmed from the arrival of Parrot Drones in the market. Together with a friend of mine, I wanted to see how hard it would be to implement a very basic autopilot. Basically: Fly from point A to point B, leave starting and landing to your human copilot. Turns out, that's still pretty hard to do. Sensor data is really noisy (because of all the vibrations inherent in RC planes), GPS data can be very weird at times, altitude is difficult to figure out with a sufficiently small margin of error and basic, visual, collision avoidance was well beyond either of our technical capabilities. So... we dialed back our ambitions, spent the summer crashing (and thus fixing) RC planes a lot, learned many valuable lessons and then returned to our studies without ever considering this as a valid business opportunity.
It was just a fun summer project and I'd recommend every college student to pursue similar kinds, regardless of whether you'll ever make a buck from them.
@@kappadistributive so you are saying you came up with the idea first?
Definitely a troll.
@@ReddwarfIV so you refuse to answer the question? are you getting cognitive dissonance?
Damn this is just like an aircraft carrier takeoff and landing system, you got the catapult and the tail wire. Absolutely amazing
It wouldn't surprise me if they got inspired by aircraft carrier takeoff and landing systems.
Exept its fully automated, maybe will happen with 6th gen fighters that may or may not have pilots
But no landing gear
Right. I was just about to comment this
@@ralexcraft990 Who needs landing gear when your never meant to completely touch the ground anyway.
I work in tech, and even i think that sometimes tech is killing society by making evetyone spoiled, complacent and lazy. But then i see something like this and it reinvigorates my love for technology and creativity
Same was my thoughts :) Creativity to its finest
most engineers nowadays focus on creating problems for consumers to solve. This restore my faith in engineering.
S Userman Good point(s)!
I told my chimp friend the other day if you keep getting termites using that stick you’re gonna make all the other chimps lazy because they won’t be hard at work ruining their hands at digging out the termite mound to get at the termites. They’ll just start being lazy and using sticks too! He didn’t listen. He was too busy eatin’ termites and gettin’ busy with the female chimps. I salute your work in tech, Justin Hyland. Don’t despair, creativity abounds!
If is completely opposite. More technology creates more possibilities, inventions, solutions based on dreams how something suppose to work. It's inspires people to do more and more effectively. We started from calculator, transistors, computer to smartphones, and this is just the beginning.
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Hahah
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"Let me tell you about planes"
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Who came after seeing their comment on the Mark Robers Video 💀
The views on your channel are criminally low.
87.5 million?
@@looneyirish007 Yes. Only 87 millions for months of hard work. UA-camrs that post useless stuff like Logan Paul gets 4 billions views.
415k
@@MossPalone our culture likes dumb and random content. not content that gives information and educates you in a way.
@@minecraftlove1608 Cobined views, not this videos views.
Good for health + for economy + for Rwanda's coolness
You're everywhere on UA-cam lol
+environment
@Cliff Yablonski Their physical appearances has nothing to do with it being designed...? This video is just about how this delivery system is helpful for the people in this region...
Especially good for engineering done in California.
Cool note: at 4:47 you can hear the drone throttle its motors up just in case the wire missed. You can even see the props spin faster in the slo-mo. Extra safety factor!
you can see it aswell in the slow mo shot!
@@thebigbonk wow! I have the feeling it sais it in the original comment
Lovely piece of film-making there. Savage engineering work by the Rwandans aswell. (Sorry - And Zipline too)
Its an American company based in California. Rwanda was its first launch.
@@SavetheRepublic Yeah, I was just going to ask who made these aircraft for the Rwandans, they don't have anything close to the technical capabilities necessary to build any kind of aircraft.
@Antonio Giuseppe Have they ever designed and built a complete vehicle of any kind?
@Antonio Giuseppe Yes. Last year. @idontcare80 - Regarding design and manufacture of a vehicle: No, not to my knowledge. This is a very interesting Country. About 25 years out from a genocidal inter-tribal war, and with what is a Benevolent dictatorial government, I have nothing but praise for them. The 2nd or 3rd most financially stable Country in Sub-Saharan Africa. They are a land locked country with few natural resources, yet they are creative enough to find new-age resources to generate revenue without resorting to overly oppressive debt from the IMF or China. The resources Rwanda is selling to drone companies such as zipline is their *non-congested airspace* for what is effectively a real world, large scale test zone. I have heard it's about $800K USD/year paid to Rwanda for ATC and air rights usage. This earned income will go to other infrastructure build outs. Several other drone companies, including UPS are also paying to rent Rwanda airspace...at least from what is reported.
@@shotelco You mean they have generous companies (like ZIpline) who are guiding them toward advancement, even though they aren't able to contribute toward that advancement.
Saying Rwanda built these is misleading. Zipline is an awesome company based in California (visited their HQ), Rwanda is simply where the technology is applied. Congrats to Rwandan government for being so collaborative though, that's why all this was possible.
The title is quite misleading and quite click baity
Do you say *insert company* built *insert infrastructure* or do you say *insert government* built it. Look at any major government infrastructure, no one says *insert company* made it, they say the government who paid for it did.
@@speedy01247 I think in this case they have to credit Zipline. Search for big battery in Australia and I don't see anybody implying Australia knows how to build big batteries.
Dipipegb the video title is 'how (in) Rwanda (they have) built a drone delivery service'..so the topic of the video is the 'delivery service' itself..not about the drone tech
@@druegnor But they didn't build it. It was built, is maintained, and operated by, Zipline International out of Half Moon Bay, California. Under contract with the government of Rwanda.
I knew I'd heard of this before when Mark Rober released his video today! This was the video, thanks for covering the gliders 4 years ago!
I also😂
I also heard of this before, but it was from my school and I was wondering how it worked.
This aged well, came here from Mark Robers video
This is some seriously awesome engineering to solve an important issue. Much respect
@Art Deco Jeweller are you trying to troll us?
I agree it is awesome
@@footballremix.8084 I'm sure (hope...) he/she is being deeply ironic. In the "West", there are too many regulations and bureaucratic interests for such a system to be implemented and tested. However, once fully proven in places such as Rwanda, it can more easily be certified and implemented in more developed regions. There clearly is development and refinement happening, based on real experience.
Anyone here from Mark Rober's video ?
Now: Rwanda
Later: Wakanda
Nice xD
Good job by founder en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keller_Rinaudo
I bless the healthcare down in aaaaafricaaa
*I bless the drones down in Africa
Gonna take some time to fly the drones we never had
I hear the drones buzzing tonight
But she hears only whispers of great innovation
This is by far the best drone delivery company i have ever seen ! Delivering with Quadcopters is such a lame idea...
Anything I have seen to come even near by is the DHL parcelcopter and skyport tests year or two ago, where they run two linked skyport packet stations for 3 months. In mountains, in winter. It was a tilt rotor craft.
In that also the key milestones aren't the craft actually though the tilt rotor was darn cool, but the integrated logistics involved. In Ziplines case they have specific area delivery from service hub to clients. In the DHL test they integrated two way the stations as part of their normal parcel station service.
Only one station was in a mountain side village on the end of a windy road and another at the bottom in valley.
The amazing part was the essentially fully automatic hangar and packet station. You put packet (a standard size DHL small parcel cardboard box) in the machine, the machine loads it automatically to a payload shell, attached the shell to their tilt rotor sitting on the landing pad. Packet loaded the protective doors open (since winter, one has to have a protected hangar), craft spools it's engines and helicopters out, then it transfers to winged flight, flies to the another station. The other station gets message from the craft, opens it's hangar, craft helicopters down, part of the pad slides open, arms reach out and detach the payload pod and take the parcel and store it in a automated storage magazine to be handed out.
their post truck comes around at the bottom of valley, they employee tells station to empty and it hands out the out going packages, then the employee inserts the up going packages and leaves, the station starts to shuttle the packages up the mountain.
The integration and automation is the key. Anyone can strap a packet to bottom of quad copter by hand and tell it to go to GPS coordinates. The real business is in creating the integrated services with the redundancies, securities and day to day on going process.
well you don't always want to parachute your soup on the floor.
no the Quadcopter delivery systems would still be far more efficient in short distances within urban cityscapes.
Sébastien Fraggl thats where you are wrong.Quad copters can fly lower and for a more regulated airspace you need that
@@dekonfrost7 exactly. and they can land on very small surface
7:59 slight mistake here. No current Tesla car in production has that large of a battery. The current largest battery is 100 kWh and the smallest used to be 75 kWh.
Slight mistake here, The current largest battery is 100kWh (Model S/X) while the smallest currently available is 62kWh (Model 3). And Model S/X used to be available with 60kWh and Model 3 will eventually be available with 52kWh.
The Tesla models with 60 kWh batteries were actually software-limited 75 kWh battery-packs, but other than that you are correct.
BSC4PE Since 2016, yes. But originally it was a 60kWh battery pack which was also reflected in curb weight. At the very beginning there was even a 40 kWh model but only few people ordered it. The few that actually did order one received a electronically limited 60kWh pack.
Ah I wasn't aware of that. Thanks
@Gabriel Cabana Actually 62kWh Model 3 is medium-range and is already available for 44k. You are talking about ~50kWh 35k USD low-range version (or you can use euphemism like "standard range"), that is not yet available.
Man the same topic but different channels and my favourite youtubers real engineering and wendover prod.
Wow thank you thats my first heart
so you are telling me...
they are now using Aircraft carrier technology to deliver medical supplies?
sign me up!
For once military technology used right
The ancient Romans would have been surprised to learn that catapults are aircraft carrier technology. They'd probably would have ask "what are aircraft?"
@@henryjohnson280 hehe
Friends who upload together stay together.
Who else came from the mark rober video?
Me 😂😂😂
What a great video, right??
@@jess_o yes
I came here from RealLifeLore
Me
10:28 "When quarantines are an issue, these drones could minimize human exposure to contagious diseases, and so help stop the spread of disease."... excuse me but did you know something we did not???
ahahhahahaha i was just thinking that
😂
Great company. Great Collab. Keep 'em coming.
This is unbelievably fantastic!! Using tech to save lives!! I love it!! 😀✈🛰👍
I'd love to meet the 369 people that disliked this video, until then I will be baffled at humanity.
Dislikes often come from UA-cam suggesting this to people who are not interested. So they dislike the video so the algorithm wil learn not to suggest similar videos again.
If you think this is representative for humanity while watching a video on aid workers that got 37K likes, you surely are a "glass-half-empty" person.
It's probably more the title that they disliked. We all know Rwanda did not *Build* anything.
@@TheDeans1982 that's probably just you
@@zuesadam7143 that's probably just your estrogen levels
probably black racists not happy to see that Africa is better when the whites manages it ... (zeplin is a European company)
Real Engineering = Drone Engineering
Wendover Productions = Transportation Logistics
Real Life Lore = Practical Usage Analysis
They actually have to create a channel and put together 3 video in 1 for each topic they want to talk about. That would be awesome.
@@lorenzoporre8155 Yeah, kinda like Hot Stuff
@@PersianMapper What's Hot Stuff?
Is that an actual format/channel or were you just saying that a mixed channel would be amazing?
@@lorenzoporre8155 Hot Stuff is a channel made by various Science UA-camrs talking about Climate change
I meant that as in an example of collaboration between youtubers to make a different channel
The take of it and the landing of it looks like the takeoff and landing of the aircraft carrier
I mean, it faces the same issues as an aircraft carrier.
@@yobeefjerky42 Not really... Sure, fast take-offs are also important for aircraft carriers. But the main problem on an aircraft carrier is the little space you have to get the planes in and out of the air. If using a catapult mechanism would save you that much time getting a fighter *jet* in the air, air forces would install it on land-based airfields as well.
@@nightstrike710 Their problem is very similar to an aircraft carrier. It's just that instead of having too short of a runway, they don't have a runway at all.
@@rifraf276 Hm, I can't really tell if you are joking xD
Nevertheless, not having a runway is not their problem, it's their choice. There is no need for the drone to be able to take off anywhere else than the base(s). So they can reduce the weight (, drag) and complexity of the drone by just not putting any wheels on it. Just like it was said in the video. (Although, maybe it was said in Wendover's video, I'm not sure) Additionally, bringing the drone up to cruising speed with a ground-based contraption saves quite a bit of energy compared to having the drone take off on a conventional runway. I guess that way they also can get away with a less powerful and thereby lighter motor for the propeller.
its take-off and landing...
No one:
Literally no one:
Us Army: We could replace the blood with bombs
Before hating on the US military, first thank them for developing 90% of the tech that made it possible for the blood to be delivered.
Tungst Don’t hate the Us military at all. Just don’t see the point of bombing people with drones as only 1 in 40 people killed by a drone is a terrorist.
You lost your credibility when you used this so called “meme” you little insecure, easily influenced sheep!
Actually, it was literally just the OPPOSITE!
r/woosh
The launch and recovery tech look like they were both inspired by naval aviation. Well done!
that's right! I didn't realise that the assisted launch / landing systems were so similar to those used on aircraft carriers.
No the launch and recovery systems were inspired by much much older drones like the drones like ones used in the first Iraq war. They used to just fly into a wire and get tangled and the catapult is largely unchanged. Those systems may have drawn inspiration from naval aviation which drew inspiration the wright brothers catapult
Came from the Mark Rober video, my first question when I saw that was about air space control, especially in cities, but he never touched on that. So I'm really glad you covered it here properly. I'm also really happy to see how far they've come. (And pretty late but) Thank you for making this awesome video.
Who's here after watching Mark Rober 's video👏🏻
I worked for a regulatory approvals company that worked a lot with Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority and many other telecommunications authorities in Africa and it always blew my mind that when a country is building infrastructure based on utility rather than just as it becomes available such innovative solutions become the best way forward.
Real Engineering, RealLifeLore, and Wendover all just uploaded at the same time. I need to pinch myself because I must be dreaming.
And Second Thought Earlier.
It was all according to plan.
Except Second Thought, that was a coincidence.
This is the sort of news that make me really happy. Long live Rwanda from Serbia!
It's so crazy to rewatch this video! I work at Zipline now; great to see how much has changed. Also the drones depicted here just got retired this past week!
I have an interview with zipline in a weeks time, I am anxious and excited at the same time. I've longed to work in such an innovative organisation all my career, and this is my window of opportunity. Hoping that like you, I get my lucky break. Congratulations.
@@mercyanthonyvlogs9179 I wish you the best of luck.
I've been watching videos about Zipline and learning everything about the company for 2 weeks. I'm super excited by it. Wish I could work for Zipline and help them with their perception, data, and autonomy needs
One of my all-time favorite UA-cam videos!
The future is now!
My day is just getting better! I started late at school today and then I get home to a new video Real Engineering video!
found here after watching Mark Rober's new video. Thank you for introducing the technology innovation behind!
Found this vid. after the comment on Mark
Rober's vid.
I really hope Rwanda becomes a Wakanda
literally every aspect of this drone service is mindblowing
Narrator: But wait, there's more!
This video made my day. As an mechanical engineering student, I'm really happy to see this! Thank You!
Visit Rwanda 🇷🇼
@@hozayves no
3:59 the catapult for this amazing saviour jet....
next step : designing an aircraft carrier for this
The problem with that its the G forces than a human can tolerate
What jet? This is powered by propellers!
I'm here because of your comment on Mark Rober video
This was one of the most wonderful and thought inspiring "Drone service" and its coverage about the use case i have seen in a while. Great job! and thanks.
I love you real engineering😍😍😍
U r my favourite channel all the time
I want my Pizzas to be delivered this way.
maybe it will be possible in 2022
Gux Sus2 it is already possible it just isn’t a thing
@@allstar_7112 i tried to say that thing might happen at 2022 but not in czech republic :)
With all the toppings and crust swirled around because of wire landing...
Medicine first
Rwanda? More like Wakanda! That's awesome.
This simply brilliant engineering and superb innovation. Well done, Rwanda 🇷🇼
Ahhh... Rwanda was gifted the system from the Northern California company that invented it. Literally dropped on their doorstep.
As they say, "necessity is the mother of invention." Rock on Rwanda, may the Creator bless you with much more success!
Nobody here is noticing how precise has to be the engineers that created this to make possible the grabbing part
Yep. That "10% miss..." Really undersold that complex, accurate, compact, 90% success rate non-damaging short capture system
@@iainburgess8577 considering that the plane can try how many times it wants i think it is a great result
I kind of disagree with the last statements of the video. Even if in the future Rwanda has a perfect road system this drone delivery system seems more efficient and should be kept in place even then.
I know, my dad literally does something similar to this, he gets a call drives to the place(pharmacy place), picks up the package (medicine) then drives to the drop off as fast as legally possible. Even on a good day it takes him 12 minutes (distance from his house to the place where he picks up the medicine) to get the medicine in the first place, if he is somewhere else that could be an extra 30-40 minutes on top of the actual drive, he has had situations where the medicine was cancelled due to a person dying. I once went with him on a trip and while that trip was not a life threatening one, it still was around 100 minutes of driving (this was both ways, the first hour was getting there the rest was returning home)
Yeah, and not just in Rwanda. Most Futurists believes drones and flying vehicle tech will make cross country roads obsolete.
Beware of incoming 'I came here from Mark Rober' comments
Well played Real Engineering. Enjoy the sudden spike in views!
How Rwanda purchased a chinese drone for delivery service, here fixed the title for you.
But Zipline is a California based company....
I was in Rwanda from September thru November of last year. I knew that zipline was a delivery service, but somehow missed that they are using drones! 😅
*Rwanda is actually Wakanda*
@Cliff Yablonski Dude quit being edgy im seeing you everywhere in this comment section lmfao
Drone delivery services will NOT work inside BIG cities.
Drones are too DANGEROUS to use in heavy populated areas or cities.
It looks like Zipline is a US company from San Francisco. I don't follow how Rwanda built it.
Awesome to see this sort of thing in the wild!
Nothing wild about Muhanga, the village where this service is based. ua-cam.com/video/s8BgQg8F7Aw/v-deo.html
@@Rwizaify "In the wild" (at least in American English) is an expression meaning "out in the field" or in other words "not in a lab" or "in users' hands" :-). It's very cool!
demon39063 The actual operations center of the company is entirely in Rwanda and maintained by Rwandan staff. Not to mention that the company relies on the Rwandan air traffic control system.
@@RihannaIsIluminati That makes sense -- really cool. The technology was built by a company in San Francisco -- title seemed a bit misleading is all.
They didn't. Just signed a contract with Zipline International, California, USA.
Sounds like having fixed cameras would be more efficient for the preflight self checks.
That's added infrastructure and a specialized piece of equipment vs the phone that everyone has in their pocket with a small app.
@@OspreyKnight cameras are neither specialised nor "infrastructure". In any case a couple of phones with good cameras could be used instead. Faster and less labour required.
@@gracefool or one phone in the hand of a single tech that can preform multiple duties.
An autonomous frame to hold a bunch of phones around a plane IS infrastructure and it would have to be designed and built. It is possible, but it would take thousands of man hours of one tech using his company phone to do a 1-2 minute preflight check.
Lets say your paying your tech 10 dollars an hour. In the time it takes to do this preflight check with a tech holding a cellphone it costs maybe .06 to .12 cents every time he preforms the check.
Lets assume you need 6 cellphones,
www.amazon.com/ZTE-VZW-Z839PP-Vantage-Prepaid-Smartphone/dp/B078SPG6C6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=smart+phone&qid=1549656364&rnid=2941120011&s=Cell+Phones+%26+Accessories&sr=1-1
Cheapest smart phone phone I found in under a minute. costs 32 dollars. 32 x 6 is 192 dollars.
Lets move onto the frame. Lets say it generously takes 40 hours to design the frame that needs to hold phones, surround a vehicle without damaging it, be rigid enough to ensure all phones are in place to measure correctly. Lets also say you're an asshole to the engineer and only pay them 10 bucks an hour. Thats 400 dollars to design the frame.
Fabricating the frame takes specialists. Probably takes 20 hours to fabricate, lets also say you love wageslaves and say 10 per hour. another 200.
SO being very generous you're looking at around 800 dollars to build this pointless contraption.
Add to that, this is a purpose built contraption that only does one thing, ensure the preflight checks are running correctly.
Vs 32 dollars for a multi purpose device and the tech gets paid their .12 cents every time they use it to do preflight.
@@OspreyKnight you don't even need a frame, just cheap security cameras. There's very little development time, finding and zooming on QR codes is a solved problem. Then once you have the code you zoom out and capture the test. It doesn't have to be perfect either, since you still have a human there, but they should be for *backup*. The only reason to use the current system is because it's temporary. The small development cost would pay off pretty quickly even with third-world labour - but of course this is all a test for the first world anyway.
@@gracefool You aren't very smart are you.
This "temporary solution" is not only better and simpler, it's vastly cheaper in the long run. It would literally take decades to recoup the R and D alone compared to using a tech. It's not worth the money.
800 dollars is generous as fuck, and "cheap third world labor" isn't that cheap because you're not hiring unskilled workers to fill in a ditch you're hiring American taught designers and engineers. Furthermore their customers are those "third world citizens" and thus your cost needs to be competitive in THEIR market.
Something like you're suggesting would probably cost several thousand to develop a buggy product that still doesn't do as well as a person with their adaptable brain to go, Hey this thing isn't working right and it's giving me a false positive. when things go wrong
Awesome technology and a great company. But to be precise, the max capacity of a Tesla is the battery of the P100 or P100D models, with 100kWh, not 120 kWh.
I read about this in the ASCE Civil Engineering magazine abt 2 years ago.....Rwanda have finally established it!!! They expected it not to be up and running till next year(2020). But its a testament and a credit to Rwanda and how far they have come since their dark period in the 1990's!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👣
#BigupRwanda
Keep in mind it's an american company
Came here from Mark's video. These guys are doing an incredible job at pushing humanity forward.
WOW they looked a lot smaller when I see them flying, didn’t know they were so huge.
Two videos about drones at the same time this is too much @wendover productions and @Real Engineering
in Turkey there is a word.
"Poorness makes you inventor."
In English "Necessity is the mother of invention"...
Zipline is an American company headquartered in California. The drones in this video and the software that operate them are American technology. Rwandans did not invent any of it.
@Richard Farrey because there is more urgency for a system like this in a country with poor infrastructure like Rwanda, also it's more difficult in the US because of the busy airspace above the US as he explained in the video.
A bit like the equivalent of "necessity is the mother of invention"
@@blokeabouttown2490 and here I am thinking Africans designed it.......haha
Hi mate, any chance of covering boeings new wing design?
For the 777x?
@@RealEngineering Yes please, why the fold is necessary and any innovation involved, why it hasn't been done before.
Also this is interesting, a new transonic concept. travel.nine.com.au/2019/01/10/09/35/boeing-new-wing-design-higher-faster-planes
@@CNERail the folding is because the plane is so wide it wouldn't fit in many gates the 777-300 uses now. That would be counterproductive for airlines.
Mentour Pilot did a vid on that.
I'm sick of hearing of all that drones can do but never seeing it. This company actually does it, and in Rwanda, on top of it all. Congratulations
This was honestly one of the coolest videos I've ever seen on youtube.
This is why drones are awesome! They have so many universal applications like delivery, geological studies, photography, and emergency services.
Did Rwanda build this technology or was it done on an Oceanfront Ranch in California like its website indicates? Stop trying to fool people!!!
I never heard them say Rwanda built the tech? It was all built somewhere else and thrown together.
And look where they are now 4 years later
*now we just need mustard to joined them*
Wow. I love this story.
Just imagine if all of Africa was as developed as the western world. Look at what Rwanda has just because its president has their countries interests at heart.
Paul Kagame is an authoritarian dictator.
@@cf7833 Authoritarian dictator that cares for his citizens is leagues better than a democratic President who is incompetent and corrupt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@potatoeskimos a truer word has never been said.
@@cf7833 boy, I will take a Paul Kagame any day over a false democracy in Amerikkka.
Congrat Rwanda Africa you never stopped amazing.
@C S bullshit he is just upset because an anti-white scumbag writes a stupid comment
@C S I'm sure you don't object to "black excellence" though. Mudbrain!
@Cliff Yablonski but do you have to be insulting, you see like the dumb and racist one
Holy moly this level of technology and execution is so amazing and astonishing. I'm inspired!
This is marvelous. Rwanda is doing something we wouldn't have thought of doing until 2025
If I could like and favorite this multiple times I absolutely would; it's super cool and inspiring for me to see almost everything I work with and learn as a cybernetics engineering student and freelance web developer integrated into one one video with machine vision, UAV design and control, embedded computer systems and good user interface design all happening in one place - thanks a lot for the excellent video (as usual)!
The title is misleading. It suggest that Rwanda has created this system and its airplanes, which is way far from the truth.
Truth gets in the way when you're trying to promote myths.
The title is not misleading, it says "How Rwanda Built *A* Drone Delivery *Service* ". It doesn't say that they built the system or that it's the only one of its kind.
@@borgestheborg And that's why it's misleading. Rwanda built shit. Some guy did so in Rwanda.
They built it in Rwanda with Rwandan money/resources. You wouldn't go around calling for example Germany out if they built something developed by a dutch engineer, if they gave him the money and everything else to realize his idea.
YOU ARE FUCKING RACIST!
And if you wanna argue you just wanna be precise, then check yourself, in which cases this exactness triggers in you. Racist!
This gave me goosebumps, some seriously awesome work. Elon better watch out...
8:00 what? top model (as of now) is 100kwh
Relax man. He future proof
This is the next big breakthrough in innovation.....the world is going to benefit from this so many ways!!!!
Thank you so much for your highly informative and very well presented coverage of this elegantly simple and simply elegant airborne delivery system!
I don't recall being so impressed with anything as much as I was with this entire system and operation.
By designing in simplicity, reliability and operational serviceability the Operator has truly created a World Class System!
Every aspect was refined for safety and reliability to ensure rapid, repeatable delivery to clinics and doctors irrespective of the surface transport infrastructure.
As a former Emergency Blood Courier (Motorcycle) I have an operational appreciation of just how important this service is, literally life or death!
I think I should mention that zipline is an American startup company and all the design and service was made in usa.
But they worked directly with the Rwandan government which oversaw the project.
Did you notice that the entire system operates just like the aircraft carrier
Tomas Strolys The actual operations center of the company is entirely in Rwanda and maintained by Rwandan staff.
RihannaIsIluminati yeah I think it was obvious from the video, but they didn’t even mention where this system was created which I think is really essential.
@@MTomas95 not really.
2:50 Surprised how that tiny motor gets this cruising at 100kph
This is FCKING AMAZING! Fantastic! Keep up the great content guys! 👍
*_Rwakanda_*
Just like Wakanda, a myth for blacks created by whites: a semblance of African culture hiding a thoroughly Western basis.
@Justin2534 I dunno if anyone's really triggered by it, it's just amazing how transparent it is as white propaganda that nevertheless is embraced as empowering. It's the usual liberal saviour thing, ironic and without substance so it's sad when it pays off. It's the same as any PR, like people getting annoyed at Apple fanbois or something. It's basically the same reason people disparage religious cults.
It's not surprising that wakanda would already have drone deliveries.
;)
That is absolutely incredibly well-designed and thought out, wow.
7:58 "your average Tesla has about 120kWh". ???WHAT???
show me 1 tesla model that has 120kWh or more! most of them have around 75-85kWh and up to 100kWh (model S), with the model3 coming in new and has also 75kWh and later on will have 50kWh.
did you mistake kW (rate of charge, unit of Power) with kWh (battery capacity, unit of Energy) ????
Well, does it really matter, in context of this video?
Relax man. He future proof
@@fabianmuhammadgiffariputra7461 it does. it shows he didn't do his research right.
it shows that if he fails on that simple fact, he will fail on more facts.
meaning this video has no believeable part whatsoever, since every single thing could potentially be wrong.
Is it just me or this is wakanda irl? I mean, Rwanda forever
@Cliff Yablonski the group doing the work there looks pretty diverse European and African to me.
@Cliff Yablonski they're not all white.
Don't worry, soon the Africans will completely diverge from Eurasians technologically and lock you Eurasians out for good.
Saw Mark Robers video and your comment beneath it and just HAD to come and like this video as well
Spotlighting tech like this is the way the future will improve via innovation and ecology
Just pointing out that Zipline has been criticised buy some Rwandans for using their clout within the government to bypass the creation of standardized regulations that would allow local companies to vie for government contracts in the same space.
Check out "The Documentary: Africa’s Drone Experiment" from the BBC for a more balanced exploration of this subject.
No offense to Real Engineering intended as this was a necessarily limited scope video.
Considering how good the implementation of Zipline looks, it was probably a good decision to avoid local companies. I'm sure there are a lot of guys over there with not so much expertise ready to milk the government.
Yeah sure, just let the foreign companies in to kill local enterprise. Colonialism was great!
@@ASilentS Well, this is some serious hi tech even by western standards, both hardware and software. I doubt local companies would be able to do anything close to that. This has nothing to do with colonialism.
Travel 4k People who actually care about Rwandan development.
@John Doe Ah! “The Great Colonial Infrastructure”!! Here’s how The Atlantic Monthly described Rwanda’s capital city in a 1964 article, two years after the colonizers left: *“Kigali has a population of 4,500 and one paved street.”* And this is the same city today: ua-cam.com/video/ZKyad1yzh2o/v-deo.html
Did “the Africans fail to maintain it”? The ONE colonial street? You don’t have to answer.
120kWh tesla?
Yea that's wrong. More like 75 to 100 kwh
Scott Bora - The old Tesla roadster had a 120 kWh pack
@@spoonikle no it didn't, it was like 50 kwh. You're confusing the charge rate (120 kw) with the pack size (kwh)
Scott Bora - I would delete my comment but I will leave it to be wrong. I am wrong.
@@spoonikle honorable of you