XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response
Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.
Track B carries four separate pots of prize money, not the two most often mentioned: a $750,000 milestone prize split among up to five teams that reach the Finals, the $3,500,000 Grand Prize for the single winning team, a $250,000 discretionary Bonus Prize the Judging Panel can award to one or more finalists for groundbreaking work, and a separately-sponsored $1,000,000 Lockheed Martin bonus for t…
This track looks for teams building autonomous systems — drones, sensors and AI — that can detect a high-risk wildfire and fully suppress it without human intervention. Solutions must work across a large, environmentally challenging area and tell real fires apart from decoys like water vapour or solar-panel glare.
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