LARAMIE, Wyo., May 28 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
When then-University of Wyoming engineering students Christian Bitzas, Oreoluwa Babatunde
and Brady Wagstaff noticed a lack of local tech opportunities in Laramie, they decided
to build something themselves.
An idea sparked when Bitzas's father, a home inspector, needed a safe way to check
out tight crawl spaces. While options existed in the inspection vehicle field, the
team was confident it could build something better.
With help from Zoë Worthen, a UW business management graduate student from Rozet,
the first prototype quickly turned into UplinkRobotics, a startup based in Laramie.
The company won the John P. Ellbogen $50K Entrepreneurship Co...