matternet

English

Etymology

From matter +‎ net.

Proper noun

matternet

1. A network of autonomously controlled, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that transport small packages of a standardised size.
   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     Over the matternet […] hospitals could send urgent medicines to remote clinics more quickly than they could by roads, … .

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

References

• “Matternet: Swapping roads for flying”, in BBC‎^[3], 2012 February 2
• “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[4], volume 405, number 8813, 2012 December 1, pages 3-4 (Technology Quarterly)

Anagrams

• treatment