What is the name of your organization?
Beewise
What is the name of your solution?
Beewise
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Securing global food supplies by saving bees utilizing AI-powered Robots
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
San Ramon, CA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
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What type of organization is your solution team?
For-Profit
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What specific problem are you solving?
30% of global food supply is pollinated by bees, yet 40% of bee colonies die every year as a result of climate change, pesticides, diseases, pests, and other stressors. Without help, the honeybee species is at risk of going extinct. Saving this species is essential to the global food system.
What is your solution?
Beewise is the Earth's first robotic beehive. Beewise applies the same treatments that a beekeeper would using computer vision, precision robotics, and artificial intelligence. Beewise constantly monitors the bees in its device using proprietary AI to identify and address their needs in real-time and without any human intervention. Beewise can feed and water bees, treat illnesses and pests, address climate-related issues with an active climate control system, harvest honey within the device, and prevent 100 percent swarming. Beewise also conducts frame manipulationâ95 percent of what beekeepers do to their hives todayâ including splitting hives, combining hives, adding queen excluders, and more.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our customer is the commercial beekeeper. Commercial beekeepers manage above 1,000 beehives, and sometimes even as high as 50,000. The biggest one in the world manages almost 100,000 beehives.
By deploying our solution, commercial beekeepers will not lose such a significant amount of their bees (and their revenue accordingly), they will not require such a significant labor force, and they will make more profit than before, even after paying the fees for our service.
There are already over 5 commercial beekeepers that have deployed our solution; 2 of them for over a year. This has dramatically changed the way they operate, and the one common feedback we get from them is: "we're never going back".
