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Drone Autonomous Service Hub
Drones are a mature technology with numerous applications, however we are yet to see them reach the scale of usage of cars or planes. This expansion is severely limited by batteries, which require manual replacement and take long to recharge. The need to replace or recharge drones with human intervention leads to a high downtime between operating cycles and limits the expansion of operations severely. Just like we have highways for trucks, harbors for ships and airports for planes, we believe now is the time to build the world's first dedicated drone infrastructure system.
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Buoyant Industries
Europe's 500,000+ km of powerlines, 230,000 km of managed waterways, and hundreds of thousands of kilometres of pipelines and rail require regular inspection to prevent failures. Current methods such as ground patrols, manned helicopters, and short-range quadcopters are expensive, infrequent, and leave significant monitoring gaps. Helicopters cost ~€20,000/flight hour; quadcopters are limited to 20–40 km range and under one hour of endurance, requiring constant redeployment and on-site pilots. The result: inspections occur just 2–5 times per year, driven by cost rather than operational need, leaving critical infrastructure under-monitored between visits.
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E2 Engine
Heavy duty vehicles being only 4% of the transportation market contribute to more than 25% of the global emissions. With existing solutions for light vehicles not applicable for the heavy duty market, a new architecture is needed to meet zero emission targets without compromising operational demands. But achieving zero emission targets isn’t a day’s work, and therefore needs a solution that can adhere to the future changes and challenges to the advances in the types fuels. Hydrogen today. Synthetic fuels tomorrow and the industry can’t afford to reinvent propulsion everytime.
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Modu Light Urban Vehicle
Dense European cities are transitioning toward zero-emission mobility, yet urban service infrastructure remains heavily van-dependent. Service technicians and handymen rely on vehicles designed for maximum flexibility and volume, even when much of that capacity goes unused. As cities introduce low-emission zones and restrict access for fossil-fuel vehicles, this mismatch creates rising costs, spatial pressure, and avoidable emissions. Existing alternatives often fail to fully support technicians’ operational realities, locking the sector into inefficient mobility patterns. A structural gap persists between the demands of sustainable urban policy and the practical tools available to urban service professionals.
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HorizonLink
Colombia has thousands of poorly connected, remote, and isolated small towns and settlements. Many of these not even accesible by land, making supply runs and deliveries of life-saving medicine an arduous and unreliable endeavor. The status quo forces a choice between inefficient stockpiling leading to significant medical waste or the use of helicopters, which are cost-prohibitive and often unavailable. By using the power of UAVs, these communities can receive supplies on-demand instead of incurring the inefficiencies of stockpiling or not receiving them at all. Ensuring that geography is no longer a barrier to the outside world.
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LiNDA
The problem with the future of cycling is threefold. Development of bicycle safety is neglected compared to other modes of transportation. Cars have seen the development of LiDAR mapping but there has been little effort to translate these for cyclists. Cyclists are increasingly sharing lanes with motorised vehicles creating an unsafe cycling environment. Despite safety policy efforts, annual casualties increased by ~50% 2021-2023. AVs endanger cyclists more than human drivers. AVs increase accident risk in poor visibility. AVs cause 525% more accidents during dawn/dusk, 11% more in rain and hit cyclists from behind, in 96% of conflicts.
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