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Drone Innovations That Protect Workers and Clean Infrastructure

It’s jarring to think that in an age of drones and robotics, we still have people dangling from heights to do work that could kill them. Every time a worker scales a skyscraper or repaints a bridge, there’s this unspoken gamble with their life, just to keep things running or looking clean. And while the bravery is real, so is the risk—one mistake, one gust of wind, and everything can change. It makes you wonder why we haven’t moved faster to replace these jobs with machines built to take the fall instead.

Robert Dahlstrom, founder of Apellix, turned a frustrating paint job into a drone tech…

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