How this drone company wants to clean up dirty jobs

It was when Robert Dahlstrom was painting his house in Tallahassee that he had idea for a drone that could do the work for him. “I was climbing up and down the scaffolding, thinking there had to be a better way,” Dahlstrom said. From that thought, Dahlstrom, who's background is in IT, created Apellix and its Working Bee drone about a year and a half ago. The drone, which has four patents pending, is tethered to a base equipped with software through an umbilical cord that not only supplies power,…

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