Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 PILOT Innovation Challenge – Advanced Image Robotics, Flomenco and Voyage Audio. The winners will receive travel support to 2025 NAB Show, held April 5-9, in Las Vegas. There, they will exhibit in PropelME on the convention floor to demonstrate their products to potential customers, investors and partners. The winners will also present their work on the Startup Stage on Sunday, April 6 at 10:30 a.m.
This year’s winners are:
Advanced Image Robotics: AIR AutoPilot is the first autonomous robotic camera platform with a Visual Language Model (VLM) for continuous subject tracking. The proprietary AI model has semantic understanding of a scene, is more accurate than computer vision models, and enables multicam full self-driving.
Flomenco
: The Flomenco platform transforms how media organizations connect, discover, and act on their media assets and metadata. It empowers them to unlock new revenue streams and scale workflows while giving content creators the tools to reach audiences faster and repurpose content.
Voyage Audio: The Spatial Mic Dante and MicNet 8-Pre simplify audio capture workflows for immersive IP-based spatial audio and beyond. The multi-capsule and preamp designs, combined with digital output and remote configuration enable dynamic sound capture in sporting events, concerts and live broadcasts.
“The collaboration with PropelME and this year’s winners of the PILOT Innovation Challenge highlight solutions and innovative opportunities relevant to broadcasters,” said PILOT Executive Director John Clark. “We are excited to provide these winners with support and the opportunity to showcase their companies and their work at NAB Show in April.
This year, PILOT collaborated with PropelME at the NAB Show on the Innovation Challenge. Any PropelME exhibitor with a product or solution that is relevant to broadcasters was eligible to apply.