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Innovation Memo with Motmot: Unlocking Insights in Water Infrastructure with Smart Robotics.

Motmot is a Water and GovTech startup leveraging Autonomous Underwater Robotics (AUR) to transform drinking water infrastructure management. Their technology enables comprehensive pipeline inspections, mapping systems, identifying defects, and providing municipalities with data-driven risk assessments. By addressing aging infrastructure, water loss, and ineffective maintenance, Motmot helps utilities reduce repair costs, recover lost water, and optimize pipeline monitoring.

In today’s edition of our Innovation Memo, we profile Motmot with Co-Founder and CEO, Elliot Smith.

With deep roots in Michigan’s municipal engineering sector, Elliot actively collaborates with community leaders, local entrepreneurs, and researchers to strengthen drinking water asset management statewide. His work with the Michigan AWWA Strategy & Planning Committee focuses on building resilient communities through sustainable infrastructure practices and economic opportunity.

Our Innovation Memos provide a comprehensive profile of an innovator, whether it’s a startup, hub, investor or more established corporate, highlighting technological and business model innovations. The Memo is written in direct consultation with a verified representative from that entity and also outlines suggestions around how to rapidly scale their innovation further through the use of The FutureList’s network.

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