But for Avol Aerospace CEO Nate Poon and his partner, Dr. Matthew Sargeant, the solution was the easy part. With backgrounds in bioengineering, robotics and aerodynamics, the two were confident they could build an electric drone capable of flying farther and carrying more than others in its class. It was only when Poon returned to the familiar field of medical and health care logistics, where he spent a decade building robotics, that he found an application suited to the potential: urgent deliveries of medical products like blood, organs and tissue samples…
