Startup Guardian Brings eVTOL To Agriculture

Graham Warwick April 07, 2021
Guardian Agriculture’s multicopter eVTOL provides precise control of fertilizer and pesticide application.
Credit: Guardian Agriculture
Agriculture is the latest market to get the electric vertical flight treatment, with crop protection startup Guardian Agriculture emerging from stealth with a $10.5 million seed funding round. Guardian has developed an autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle for precision...
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