Paola Santana, the Dominican lawyer who co-founded the startup Matternet in 2011 as part of a scholarship through Singularity University, envisions a world where small drones deliver packages instead of warfare intelligence.
Santana is now back home in the DR and is working to launch the drones here and in Haiti.
Yesterday, Monday 25 March, she was featured in an article in the Huffington Post that stressed the efficiency of the system, which flies on a battery charge.
The project has been delayed in the US because the FAA is unlikely to regulate commercial drone flights until September 2015. So, Santana hopes authorities in the DR and Haiti give it the go-ahead for testing its capabilities. As reported, the applications are endless, and can even be used for trivial tasks, such as finding your iPhone and sunglasses.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/matternet-paola-santana-drones_n_2763088.html