xprize rainforest competition
Hyderabad based Grene Robotics qualifies from India to compete in the coveted XPRIZE Rainforest Competition
Grene Robotics, an innovation-led technology company that delivers Robots as a Service (RaaS), has been selected from India to compete with global companies/organisations and teams in the final round of the XPRIZE Rainforest Competition. XPRIZE is a global leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity's challenges and started the Rainforest Competition to improve the understanding of the rainforest ecosystem. The five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition is a call-to-action initiative to help save rainforests through the development of transformative, scalable, and affordable technology to autonomously survey and monitor biodiversity in near real-time leading to insights that communicate the health, well-being, and value of standing tropical rainforests while ensuring that competing teams co-design and co-create solutions with indigenous people and local communities as key stakeholders. The idea is also to create a business model that can be a beacon in bringing in the technology in conservation. The competing teams will leverage the existing and emerging technologies such as robotics, drone (SWARM and TETHERED), nano drones with sensors (auditory, ultraviolet thermal, air samples), drones designed for sample collection (barks, water, soil, litter, leaves, fecal matter, moths, insects, etc), remote sensing, data analysis, artificial intelligence, DNA sample collection, Genome sequencing, and machine learning to develop new rainforest biodiversity survey tools that will deliver information more quickly, affordably and in unprecedented detail without physical human intrusion into the rainforest.
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