Name Pulkit Jaiswal | ||
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Institutions Garuda Robotics; SwarmX Alma mater Nanyang Technological University; Stanford University Residence Singapore, United States of America Fields Robotics, Unmanned aerial vehicle | ||
Meet The Innovators Under 35 (2016) - Pulkit Jaiswal
Pulkit Jaiswal (born January 1, 1993) is an entrepreneur, engineer and Founder-CEO of SwarmX, a drone technology innovations company. He is best known for his work in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones.
Contents
- Meet The Innovators Under 35 2016 Pulkit Jaiswal
- Pulkit jaiswal
- Career
- SwarmX
- Lack of fundamental innovation
- Singularity
- Awards and recognition
- Coverage in Books Television
- References
Pulkit jaiswal
Career
At the age of 19, Pulkit dropped out of college and moved to Silicon Valley and founded Garuda Robotics, a company that provides drone technology based software services to businesses. In November 2013, Garuda Robotics received an award and worldwide acclaim for demonstrating coffee delivering drones at a tech conference. He succeeded in raising more than $1 Million in venture capital funding for his venture. In 2015, Pulkit departed from Garuda Robotics and founded SwarmX, a company with aims to build fully autonomous drone systems.
SwarmX
In July 2015, Pulkit Jaiswal and his longtime friends, Nigel Wylie and Roger Chang (co-founder of Pirate3D), started SwarmX, a drone technology company with an aim to fully automate drone systems. The company developed and marketed a drone docking station called the Hive, for large asset holding companies that could employ fully autonomous drones for monitoring their critical assets. In January 2016, the company launched its first commercially ready version of the Hive. In March 2016, SwarmX announced a partnership with DNV GL, world's largest industrial asset classification society, to deploy drone docking stations along solar farms and wind farms. The partnership was marked by the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg's visit to a solar farm test site where the Hive was deployed.
Lack of fundamental innovation
When asked about the technology startup landscape in 2016, Jaiswal responded:
"I use Instagram and Snapchat but I don’t think they are fundamental innovations. We [SwarmX] can use drones to assist human beings to perform a lot of repetitive tasks that [would otherwise] consume a lot of time and create a lot of inefficiencies, thereby saving money and reducing the strain on manpower."
Singularity
Jaiswal is deeply influenced by futurist Ray Kurzweil and believes genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology will be the main drivers of the upcoming technological singularity, an event where the rise of artificial intelligence will lead to exponential technological progress with an unpredictable effect on society:
"He draws the famous curve charting how technology is on the cusp of exploding upwards after a relatively flat trajectory. SwarmX, he points with his marker pen, could be at a point just before the inflection."
Awards and recognition
Coverage in Books, Television
Pulkit Jaiswal is the subject of a number of books and television documentaries.