Aerzoom
The Aerzoom aircraft banking low over the water towards a hilly coast at golden hour.

When minutes matter, we fly.

Aerzoom builds and operates autonomous aircraft that carry blood, transplant tissue, diagnostic samples and cold-chain medicines between hospitals, laboratories and clinics.

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Medicine should not wait for the road.

Aerzoom builds autonomous aircraft that carry blood, organs and urgent medicines between hospitals, straight over the traffic. They take off from a pad the size of a parking space, so care can reach people faster, wherever the road is slow, broken or unsafe.

  • A person supervises every flight
  • Temperature recorded the whole way
  • Handed only to a named person

Why air

Aerzoom takes the road out of the route.

Map of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The driving route from NYU Langone Tisch Hospital runs down FDR Drive, through the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel and along the Gowanus Expressway to NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn; the air route is a straight line across the harbour.

The same delivery, in New York.

NYU Langone Tisch Hospital, Manhattan → NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn

Time saved35min

By air14 minDesign targetOn the pad
By road49 minTypical trafficLeaving the hospital

Road: 15.9 km at New York City's 2024 average of 31 min per 10 km, up to 62 min in the evening rush (TomTom Traffic Index 2024). Air: 11.4 km in a straight line at the 37 mph cruise design target, plus take-off and landing. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Built around a pad the size of a parking space.

It rises straight up like a helicopter, then flies on its wings like a plane.

From the frontScroll or drag to see every side

See the specs

  1. A plane that takes off straight up.

    Its rotors lift it off a landing pad the size of a parking space. Its wings then carry it the rest of the way. It needs no runway, and it never sits in traffic.

    The Aerzoom aircraft seen head on, showing two tilting rotors above a blended carbon-fibre wing body.

  2. Two rotors that tilt.

    Pointing up, they lift the aircraft off the ground. Tilted forward, they push it through the air. The same two rotors do both jobs.

    Front elevation of the Aerzoom aircraft with its rotors level, lit against a grey studio backdrop.

  3. The body is part of the wing.

    There is no separate fuselage, so the whole aircraft helps keep it in the air.

    Plan view of the Aerzoom aircraft from above, over a faint technical measurement grid.

  4. Made of carbon fibre.

    Strong and light, with a sealed space running down its centre. The flight computer is built into the body.

    The Aerzoom aircraft seen from above with its rotors raised, showing the carbon fibre weave of its body.

Where else it can help.

Hospitals are where we start. The same aircraft is designed for places the road cannot reach in time.

Illustration: a flooded river town at dusk with its road bridge washed out, and a field clinic on high ground across the water.

When a flood cuts the road.

Blood and medicines can still reach the clinic on the other side, flown straight over the water.

Illustration: a field hospital of white tents at dusk beside a road that has collapsed into a river.

When the road is not safe.

A field hospital can be resupplied with blood and medicines without sending a vehicle down a dangerous road.

Illustration: a mountain village clinic with a landing pad, high above a long road winding through the valley.

When the clinic is hours away.

Antivenom, vaccines and samples can travel to and from a remote clinic in minutes, not hours.

What we carry.

  • Blood and blood products

    Platelets and red blood cells are often needed at short notice. They must stay within a tight temperature range, and they often travel between sites with no direct road.

  • Transplant tissue

    A donor organ stays usable for only a few hours. Too many of those hours are lost in traffic.

  • Diagnostic samples

    A sample that arrives late has to be taken again, and the patient waits another day for an answer.

  • Cold-chain medicines

    Specialist medicines that must stay at the right temperature from the moment they leave to the moment they arrive.