‘Tip of the Iceberg’ podcast: Drones!

Imagine: Using drones to detect and remove landmines at Ukrainian farms. Or to deliver lettuces to a salad bar in North Carolina and pick apples from a commercial orchard in Wisconsin.

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drone used for agriculture and produce retail Ukraine landmines on farms
(Photo: Courtesy of ZenaDrone)

Imagine: Using drones to detect and remove landmines at Ukrainian farms. Or to deliver lettuces to a salad bar in North Carolina and pick apples from a commercial orchard in Wisconsin.

What about drones to spray and weed a California farmer’s strawberries, to monitor the health of plants and livestock in Kansas, and to help with inventory management at the New Jersey distribution center?

That’s the plan for Zenadrone. Or, at least, part of it. There are many plans.

Click the purple play button below, or listen to this ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ podcast interview on your own favorite platform, be it Apple or GooglePlay or Spotify.

It’s like “The Jetsons” or “Futurama” or some such sci-fi cartoon is coming true. We’re almost at flying cars. Several drone companies are coming up these days as industries seek to solve problems along the supply chain that inch up prices at the store and restaurant for all of us.

We talk with three company leaders about ZenaDrone, their intelligent, unmanned aerial vehicle that incorporates machine learning software and artificial intelligence. Created to help farmers, it’s evolving into a multifunctional drone for different industries.

Labor problems? You may see drones picking your fruit soon. Too many sheep dying? Well, there’s a drone for that. And what about that last order of wilting lettuce? There’s a crisp new answer flying in on the horizon.

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