AI Agents and Smart Contracts Could Secure and Speed Last-Mile Medicine Delivery
· Source: bioengineer.org
In short
Researchers at Hassan II University of Casablanca combined blockchain smart contracts with large language model agents to orchestrate crowdsourced pharmaceutical last-mile delivery, cutting route time by 25 percent and planning time by nearly 79 percent versus a human-operated baseline in matched simulations. The ledger-grounded architecture keeps the blockchain as the authoritative source of operational truth while four specialized agents handle forecasting, vehicle routing, dispatch, and coordination. The authors caution that the evidence comes from simulation and outline a phased path toward a monitored pilot with a Moroccan distributor.
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Tags: last-mile, blockchain, pharmaceutical, routing, cold-chain, crowdsourcing