"The prospect of manufactured lungs could eliminate this numerical limit, and delivering them autonomously via the all-electric MOTH technology will save the health care system many millions of dollars with a dramatically reduced carbon footprint," it added.

One of the keys to overhauling the organ delivery network rests in the fact that locations of transplant hospitals and future organ manufacturing facilities would be fixed, which would make the automated drone technology "ideal for Highway-In-The-Sky (HITS) and Low-Level IFR Route (LLIR) programs," said Rothblatt.


The Ehang 184, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2016, was rated as one of the "Best of CES" by tech site Engadget. In the announcement of the award the site noted, "Passengers can program where they want to be flown, and then it's time for takeoff," adding, "Suddenly self-driving cars sound so very, very dull."

"This is exactly the kind of global impact we envisioned when building the 184," Ehang CEO Huazhi Hu said. "Partnering with Martine and Lung Biotechnology is an incredible opportunity to bring the 184 to the emergency medical space, and specifically help to revolutionize the organ delivery system in the U.S."

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