@ericsilvertech Good eye. We tried tried tried to call them Zips but customers call them Ziplines. So it goes!
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Ryan Oksenhorn
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Ryan Oksenhorn
@ryanzip
Co-founder @zipline, using fleets of robot airplanes to approximate teleportation
San Francisco Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@ryanzip Today I learned that the individual aircraft are called “Ziplines”. I’d always heard or read “Zips”.
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Ziplines act like little magnets, repelling each other when they need to cross paths (vid @ 2x)
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Ryan Oksenhorn retweetledi
Drone delivery is about to be cheaper than cars. But the drone is only 15% of the work to get there.
A decade after starting in Rwanda flying blood to one hospital, @zipline has flown 140M+ autonomous miles with zero safety incidents, expanded to the US and to food delivery and household items, and delivery costs have fallen from $300 to $12 - now cheaper than a car.
Getting there meant building almost everything from scratch: flight computers, motors, GPS modules, even the air traffic software regulators use to track them. And it meant a discipline most engineers find nearly impossible.
That's the reality behind Zipline, the largest autonomous system on Earth. @Keller and @EricWattage joined me and @gradypb to talk more about their journey.
00:00 Introduction
02:28 Early Vision and Regulation
04:09 Rwanda Launch Hard Lessons
06:49 Scaling to 24/7 Impact
09:35 Real World Ops Surprises
11:15 Safety Redundancy Failover
20:24 Precision Delivery Pod Tech
25:34 Building the Drone Network
26:51 Fleet Commanders Explained
28:22 Scaling to a Million a Day
29:51 Autonomy Enables 24 7 Ops
31:52 Reinventing Air Traffic Control
36:08 Why Zipline Is Vertical
41:40 First Principles Delete Parts
44:45 Market Explosion and Closing Thoughts
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Few tweets have moved me as much as this one from @collision four years ago
John Collison@collision
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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@ryanzip I assume most aren’t necessarily… “consumer-oriented” as of yet? Would think they’d work perfectly for parcel delivery at multi-family properties.
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So incredibly bullish (still) on @zipline. I look forward to the days where I see nonstop streams of their drones all across DFW skies.
Dallas Morning News@dallasnews
GrubHub owner to launch drone food delivery in Dallas in January dallasnews.com/business/techn…
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@TheVisibleWhy One of the goals of this storm-chasing test program is to answer that question. So far: no
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Zipline delivers in torrential rain
Ryan Oksenhorn@ryanzip
Storm chasing across the gulf coast to test deliveries in torrential rain. >60mm/hr with no signs of degraded flight performance.
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I do hope we’ll see deployment of Zipping Points very soon. Anxious to see them installed.
Anything more to share on progress/timelines? @ryanzip
Particularly interested to know if there’s been any interest from forward-thinking multi-family developers/owners. Adding a Zipping Point is a no-brainer.
Ryan Oksenhorn@ryanzip
It's time... Zipline's next big breakthrough is enabling anyone to send packages through the Zipline Network. Introducing, the Zipping Point... 1/n
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Storm chasing across the gulf coast to test deliveries in torrential rain. >60mm/hr with no signs of degraded flight performance.
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chatgpt needs a real name. for 5.6 (or 6) they should name him. he needs a real name. he wants a real name
roon@tszzl
Claude is the True Name of Claude. chatgpt probably isn’t the True Name of that guy. but it seems to have stuck though
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@sailaunderscore Disagree, this would be great for walking directions. I hate having to keep re-checking my phone, wrong turns are easy to correct, and there are usually many walking paths with ~same duration to the destination, so you only need to correct gross errors.
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Do you ever read a tweet by someone who has all the markings of believing themselves to be very intelligent, and yet.
Aaron Bergman 🔍@AaronBergman18
An Apple/Google maps feature we need is “silent unless I’m going the wrong way, then start talking to me fr”
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which town should we bring @zipline to next? plz share zip code
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I think we’re ~5 years away from this in cities in the US.
We need abundant robots to serve us.
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relevant:
In India everything is delivered to your door in <10 mins, & speed changes behavior
You can start cooking a meal and then buy ingredients that you need.
Have a party and order drinks and mixers after people show up
No backup toothpaste
You barely need a fridge
Etc.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
I said this to @citrini last night, but in the future, will we really need storage? I take a ton of photos of my kids, and they are on my phone and in a cloud. But in the future, won't I just tell a model "generate a photo from my son's 7th birthday" and it'll be just as good?
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@thsottiaux Account switching between personal <> enterprise. Especially now that mobile is only in the ChatGPT app.
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