A recent experiment that utilized a drone to transport organs within Texas and Oklahoma cut travel in time in more than half, furthering the goal of consortium that technology will be used in near future to save more lives.
In the 1st leg, the drone was transporting a kidney, liver and pancreas along with blood and tissue, was launched from Texas Technical University’s Reese Technical Center in Lubbock and travelled 350 miles to Oklahoma city.
The flight was operated from Dallas using robotic technology, marking the first organs transported that far by a drone. For the organs in the test, what would have been more than 20 hour route by car or truck took 12 hours and 15 minutes.