Winners for the third annual XCELLENCE Awards by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) were announced at a virtual ceremony on October 6. Recipients represent the accomplishments by companies, organizations and individuals across the unmanned systems community.
Brian Wynne, president and CEO of AUVSI, said the XCELLENCE awards recognize companies and individuals who are achieving remarkable results with unmanned systems technology to benefit communities.
The AUVSI XCELLENCE Awards honor innovators with a demonstrated commitment to advancing autonomy, leading and promoting safe adoption of unmanned systems and developing programs that use these technologies to save lives and improve the human condition. Winners were awarded across six technology innovation categories:
Commercial/Enterprise Operation or Solution
First Place: UPS, UPS Flight Forward Drone Delivery
Second Place: Matternet, Inc., Matternet M2 Medical Logistics UAS
Third Place: Iris Automation, Casia
Hardware Platform
First Place: Air Force Research Laboratory-led Team, SkyVision Ground-Based Detect and Avoid System
Second Place: FIRST iZ, FIRST PortTM
Third Place: Kongsberg Maritime, HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Hardware Component
First Place: LightWare Lidar, SF45 microLiDAR
Second Place: Velodyne Lidar, Inc., Velabit TM
Third Place: Ouster, Inc., OS2-128
Services
First Place: InNovo Partners, LLC, iPaaS – InNovo Platform as a Service
Second Place: SqwaQ, SqwaQbox
Software
First Place: Verity, Failsafe by Verity
Second Place: Airbus, Project Wayfinder
Third Place: Perceptive Automata, Bringing Human Intuition to Autonomous Trucks
XCELLENCE in Innovation
First Place: Iris Automation, Casia
Second Place: Emesent, Hovermap
Third Place: Dynetics, The Gremlins Program
Read the announcement at AUVSI
