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wedrone / Medical logistics

The sample does not wait for the next collection run.

Laboratory samples, blood products and medication between hospital, laboratory and pharmacy. Point to point, without a collection loop and without traffic, flown by certified partners.

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Applications

Five payloads for which time is the active ingredient.

LAB

Laboratory samples

The most common case, because most hospitals do not run their own diagnostics: only 331 of 1,893 hospitals had their own laboratory-medicine department (Destatis base data, 2022). Every other one ships samples to an external laboratory, usually on a collection loop.

  • Point to point, not a loop
  • Add-on tests without an extra run
  • Low-vibration packaging

BLOOD

Blood products

In 2024, 3,175,723 red-cell units were transfused in Germany and 4.43 percent were discarded at the point of use (Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, report under section 21 of the Transfusionsgesetz). Units keep for 28 to 49 days at 4 °C. Redistribute at short notice and you discard less.

  • Redistribution across a group
  • Documented cold chain
  • Emergency resupply

PHARMA

Medication & pharmacy

16,601 pharmacies run roughly 300,000 courier trips a day (ABDA, Zahlen Daten Fakten 2026). For hospital pharmacies and multi-site groups the bottleneck is rarely the stock, it is the journey to it.

  • Hospital pharmacy to site
  • Controlled drugs only under conditions
  • Out-of-hours supply

TRANSPLANT

Transplant logistics

In 2025, 3,256 organs were transplanted in 43 German centres (DSO annual report 2025). Organ transport is the hardest case: mass, ischaemia time and liability all sit differently than for a sample tube. Realistically, drone logistics starts here with accompanying samples, not with the organ.

  • Accompanying and crossmatch samples
  • Time-critical pre-findings
  • Organs only with partners

PAD

Landing pad on site

Without a defined handover, every flight ends nowhere. wedrone Pad Med is the landing point for hospitals and laboratories: a fixed location, a documented handover, temperature-controlled reception, connected to the routes inside the building.

  • Fixed handover point
  • Documented chain
  • Connects to the ground robots

From the air

Minutes instead of a collection loop.

How it works

Route. Regulation. Partners.

01

Scope the route

Origin, destination, payload, frequency and time window are recorded. That determines whether a route is a drone case at all. Many are not, and we say so up front.

02

Structure the regulation

Medical point-to-point flights fall into the specific category of EU drone regulation (EU) 2019/947. The route to approval runs through a SORA risk assessment, a standard scenario or a LUC, granted in Germany by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt. wedrone structures that path and keeps it auditable.

03

Fly with partners

The flying is done by approved operators from the partner network, not by wedrone. That is how every German route flying today works: the hospital does not run an aviation business, it commissions one. wedrone owns the selection, the integration, the landing pad and the documentation of the chain from pickup to handover.

Note: wedrone is a systems integrator, not an aviation operator. wedrone holds no operational authorisations of its own and does not fly itself. Whether a route can be approved depends on the specific case, particularly over built-up areas. Medical payloads are additionally subject to transport, packaging and cold-chain rules; the diagnostic assessment stays with the laboratory.

Ground side

The flight ends at the pad. The journey does not.

A sample sitting on the roof is not yet in the laboratory. The routes inside the building, meaning courier runs on the ward, supply trips between kitchen, CSSD and laboratory, plus cleaning and disinfection, run on werob's ground robotics. Air and ground only make a continuous chain together.

werob hospitals & labs: robots inside the building

FAQ

What does wedrone fly in healthcare?
Time-critical, light payloads between fixed points: laboratory samples, blood products, medication and accompanying samples between hospital, external laboratory, pharmacy and the sites of a group. Not patients, not airborne emergency medicine, and as a rule not the organ itself.
Does wedrone fly itself?
No. wedrone holds no aviation certificates of its own and operates no flights of its own. The flying is done by certified operators from the partner network. wedrone structures the route, the approval path, the landing pad and the documentation, and stays manufacturer-independent while doing it.
What does such a flight require in regulatory terms?
A point-to-point flight beyond visual line of sight falls into the specific category of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947, complemented by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/945 for the aircraft itself. Depending on the case, the evidence runs through a SORA risk assessment, binding as version 2.5 since late September 2025, through a standard scenario, or through a Light UAS Operator Certificate. There is still no predefined risk assessment for BVLOS over populated areas, which is why hospital routes in built-up areas regularly go through the full individual assessment. In Germany the operational authorisation is issued by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt. On top of that sits the U-space framework of Regulation (EU) 2021/664 and its companion regulations, whose national implementation is still in progress. How long a procedure takes depends on the individual case, and we deliberately quote no blanket figure.
How does the sample arrive intact?
Through packaging, temperature control and a low-vibration flight profile. Diagnostic specimens are packed as Biological Substance Category B under UN 3373 with the corresponding packing instruction. For blood samples the mechanical load is the critical point, because haemolysis renders a result unusable. That is why every new route is validated with the laboratory before it goes into routine operation.
Does any of this actually fly in Germany yet?
Yes, and it stopped being a pilot some time ago. Zollernalb Klinikum has been flying between Albstadt and Balingen since 2025, around seven flights a day, seven days a week, under a Luftfahrt-Bundesamt operational authorisation at SAIL III and for dangerous goods under UN 3373. Asklepios has run a scheduled route of roughly 60 kilometres in Schleswig-Holstein with the MEDILYS laboratory group since March 2025, and German Copters has been flying in Saxony since May 2025. Honesty cuts both ways: the well-known Hamburg Medifly project was a regulatory sandbox that expired in 2022, Swiss Post shut down its laboratory flights at the end of 2022, and several other initiatives have closed. What the running routes have in common is telling: no hospital operator flies itself. Every one of them works with an approved drone operator. That is exactly the role wedrone organises.
And the routes inside the building?
Those do not fly. Once the payload is handed over at the pad, werob's ground robotics takes it on: courier routes on the ward, supply runs between kitchen, CSSD and laboratory, cleaning. The air solves the leg between buildings, the ground the routes inside one. Both are specified together.

One route that sits in traffic today.

Give us the origin, destination, payload and time window. We will tell you honestly whether it is a drone case, and if it is, what the approval path looks like.

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