The 2018 Finalists
DropCopter (California), an agriculture technology startup that has developed technology that allows farmers to pollinate orchards via drones. The recent decline of bee populations has raised pollination prices significantly, creating a market for alternative technologies such as Dropcopter.
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Fotokite (Switzerland), combines aerial and ground-based robotics with flight control algorithms to create a kite-like tethered drone system that can fly fully autonomously for 24 hours.
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Precision Vision (New Mexico), creates image processing technology that makes real-time precision imaging affordable.
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Quantifly (Michigan), simplifies and reduces the costs of parking and traffic studies through the unification of unmanned aerial systems, machine vision and analytics by eliminating human error, mitigating safety risks, and centralizing harvested data.
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TruWeather (Virginia), is building a service to improve the precision, accuracy and communication of weather intelligence.
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UsPLM (Syracuse), provides a collaborative environment for to develop, test, deploy and safely operate a single or a fleet of unmanned aerial systems.
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