The Co-Founders of ARIA are coming to TEDActive 2013. If you are interested in meeting us while at Palm Springs, CA. Please send us an email to arturo [at] aria-logistics.com or simply tweet us at @arialogistics and we can schedule a meeting with you.

We will be sharing updates through our twitter account and the developer blog in this website.

You can learn about ARIA and how we see the array unfolding here:

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Jeremy Kingsley writes for The Economist:

Networking: Enthusiasts dream of building a drone-powered internet to carry objects rather than data. Are they mad?

Read the full interview right here.

[The Economist: Technology Quarterly Q4 2012. Printed Edition & Web ]

 [ARIA] has a grand vision: creating an Internet-like network of AAVs that could one day allow someone to make a one-to-one sale with anyone in the world or send medication quickly to where it’s needed most, simply by delivering goods on a flying autonomous vehicle to its destination.

[This project will] serve as a proof-of-concept for an open source network of retrofitted shipping containers that can be used to exchange goods and services in regions of the world that have no existing infrastructure, thus addressing the ‘last mile’ challenge.

Special Media Attribution Note: The featured concept artwork was developed by Futurist Dennis Mancini (@snapini on Twitter). You can view a high-resolution version from Dennis’ flickr account here. 

ARIEL SCHWARTZ writes:

“Members of the original Matternet team have a prototype for an open-source unmanned autonomous aerial system…” “…the open-source team will work with partners to show off a courier prototype at Burning Man that can operate in environments with high temperatures, low humidity, and high winds–and can deliver 3-D printed goods to anyone in a two-kilometer diameter”.

ARIA and ReAllocate.org are developing an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). We will be delivering a system that is capable of tracking a person (via GPS-enabled tracker) and delivering a payload to their dynamic location via an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).

This prototype will serve as a proof-of-concept for an open source network of retrofitted shipping containers that can be used as community hubs to exchange goods and services in regions of the world that have no existing infrastructure, thus addressing the “last mile” challenge. All the development will be open source and will be published with the goal of making this network open for everyone to continue iterating and deploying.

If you would like to help develop or co-sponsor this project, please e-mail: arturo [at] aria-logistics.com

About ARIA:

ARIA stands for Autonomous Roadless Intelligent Array and it is an open source company that is collaborating with Reallocate in autonomous logistics infrastructure projects. ARIA builds autonomous logistics infrastructure to leapfrog traditional road infrastructure and unlock economic opportunity. [access website here]

About ReAllocate:

ReAllocate enables world class talent to successfully address real world problems. We are a global nonprofit organization made up of volunteer innovators, technologists, designers, and business brains to address humanitarian challenges. [access website here]

Dr. Jack C. Chow writes:

“..what if you could leapfrog over these obstacles? The technological versatility of airborne drones, the flying robots that are already transforming warfare, also has the potential to revolutionize how humanitarian aid is delivered worldwide.”

“Look at countries in Africa, for example. Algeria, Congo and Chad – some of the largest countries on the continent – still have relatively small numbers of arteries, meaning large parts remain inaccessible and cut off from the wider world.

In these places, delivering food, drugs or any necessity is a time-consuming, arduous process.”

Gustav speaks about the Matternet, a grand vision of the future of
transportation, enabled by exponentially accelerating technologies. The
Matternet utilizes the latest advances in electronics, to create an AI
driven logistics network of unmanned aerial vehicles that will provide
affordable transportation in the poorest regions of the world.

Event date: February 13, 2012.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden.

More details on TEDxVasastan here:   www.tedxvasastan.se

Gustav speaks about the Matternet, a grand vision of the future of
transportation, enabled by exponentially accelerating technologies.

ARIA is an open source autonomous logistics infrastructure that leapfrogs traditional road infrastructure and unlocks economic opportunity.

Imagine a world were we can drastically increase access to medicine, drastically reduce poverty and create access into new markets.

We are at the dawn of a new roadless economy. The potential of this autonomous infrastructure can radically transform the delivery of goods globally, thus accelerating economic growth and lifting the rising billion out of poverty.

This is just the beginning. Let’s build the Internet of Atoms together.