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Breaking Robots Is Half the Job: How Zipline Tests Its Autonomous Fleet

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See how Zipline tests and hardens its autonomous delivery fleet. Co-Founder & CTO Keenan Wyrobek shares why breaking robots is half the job, covering validation practices behind millions of commercial autonomous miles across continents. Featured at Actuate, Foxglove's annual conference for robotics developers.

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Keenan Wyrobek, Co-Founder & CTO, Zipline

Keenan Wyrobek is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline. He oversees the development of Zipline's autonomous delivery systems from initial concept through global deployment. Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced autonomous delivery service. Today it operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 90 seconds, and serves more than 5,000 hospitals and health facilities. With more than 130 million commercial autonomous miles flown to date, Zipline is transforming access to healthcare, consumer products, and food. Customers rely on Zipline to save lives, save them time, increase economic opportunity, and provide logistics at scale. Prior to Zipline, Keenan led engineering efforts in medical robotics and co-created the PR2 robot and ROS (Robot Operating System), foundational tools now used in robotics research and development worldwide. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford.

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