Dave Kivioja has always been fascinated by aeronautics, having spent the better part of his career flying airplanes for the U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman. Over the years he has also developed a growing interest in drone technologies and their applications.
Machfu, a TEDCO portfolio company offering integrated, automatic industrial monitoring solutions, has developed a new technology to address a major contributor to climate change – methane gas emissions from orphaned or abandoned oil and gas wells.
Tracking drones and robots with pinpoint precision in an open air-land lab; watching students build and test their prototypes in a large project assembly space; creating an autonomous school of robotic fish in a water tunnel – it’s all in a day’s work for the people who study, teach and conduct