WeRobotics worked with Peru Flying Labs and the Peruvian ministry of health to modify a $3,000 drone so that it could transport a cold pack containing snakebite anti-venom to a remote Amazonian location and return to its base in Contamana with a blood sample. The destination, a village called Pampa Hermosa, is generally only accessible by boat, a journey that takes six hours. In Peru, where malaria kills more than 100,000 people every year, there are no vaccines or drugs for treating it.
WeRobotics worked with Peru Flying Labs and the Peruvian ministry of health to modify a $3,000 drone so that it could transport a cold pack containing snakebite anti-venom to a remote Amazonian location and return to its base in Contamana with a blood sample. The destination, a village called Pampa Hermosa, is generally only accessible by boat, a journey that takes six hours. The drone did the same journey in just 35 minutes.