Category: Awards/Achievements

Congratulations to WiBotic Co-Founder Josh Smith Recognized as UW EE’s Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence!

We’re so honored and proud of WiBotic Co-Founder Professor Joshua Smith for being recognized by the UW Electrical Engineering as the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence!

The Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professorship in Entrepreneurial Excellence is a professorship that supports the department in recruiting and retaining entrepreneurially-driven faculty, who will help build and sustain an engineering entrepreneurial ecosystem at the UW.

WiBotic Selected as a Semi-Finalist at AUVSI’s Startup Showdown

WiBotic has been selected as a semi-finalist in AUVSI’s “Startup Showdown,” a contest between early stage companies providing solutions to the autonomous vehicle market. Sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the Showdown will occur during the annual Xponential tradeshow at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas, TX from May 8-11, 2017.

Chosen from over 65 entrants, the sixteen semi-finalists receive complimentary booth space at the show and exposure to attendees via the Showdown website and additional onsite exposure. All semi-finalists will compete in a live-pitch Knockout Round on May 9th, from which, three finalists will be chosen to present their technology and application in the Final Round on May 10th. The winner receives a cash prize and significant additional recognition throughout Xponential. For more details, visit the Startup Showdown webpage.

“We are honored that WiBotic was selected to be a semi-finalist in the Startup Showdown at Xponential” said Ben Waters, CEO of WiBotic. “Our wireless charging and battery management technology addresses the entire autonomous vehicle industry (aerial, mobile, and aquatic) and we’re excited to showcase our capabilities at Xponential.”

WiBotic will be exhibiting in the Startup Showdown Pavilion along with the other semi-finalists in Booth 3430-E.

 

CEO Ben Waters Honored in PSBJ’s “40 Under 40”

We are excited to share that Ben Waters, co-founder and CEO of WiBotic, has been honored in Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” for 2016!  He makes us proud.

For more details on this award, please see this article.  To see Ben’s responses to their questions and watch the video of him, please go to this August 29, 2016 article about the award in the Puget Sound Business Journal.

This blog was updated August 29, 2016.