Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Photo: Akrasia25, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons9

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Robotics entrepreneur; co-founder and CEO of Romotive and Zipline (born 1987).1

Born 1987.1

About

Zipline International Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones, with distribution centers in the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Kenya. As of January 2026, Zipline's drones have completed more than two million commercial deliveries and flown over 120 million miles.

Zipline has two different drone platforms, P1 is used for deliveries to rural areas and P2 in urban and suburban areas. All Zipline drones navigate and avoid obstacles autonomously using custom software the company developed, which run on Nvidia chips. The Zipline fleet is one of the world’s largest commercial deployments of autonomous robots.

From Wikipedia’s article on Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedNorth High School3
  • Date not recordedHarvard University3 4

Career

Occupation: roboticist, entrepreneur, rock climber.6