United Therapeutics Subsidiary Lung Biotech Wants to Use Drones to Deliver Pig Organs to Human Patients

At CES this year, the Chinese drone maker Ehang showed off a prototype of its 184, an oversized drone that can carry a human passenger for up to 10 miles, with no pilot required. It was an exciting idea, but the company didn't show a working version on the floor, and the video it shared was more computer renderings than actual footage of the craft in flight. We gave it our coveted aware for best vaporware. Now it has an even crazier plan: to built a network of drones that will save lives by delivering freshly grown pig organs to human patients in need of a transplant.

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