As part of their annual competition, the FCC has announced the winners of its “Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back” and “DetectaRobo analytic challenge” contests. Ethan Garr and Bryan Moyles created a solution called RoboKill, and received the first place prize of $25,000. Hemant Sengar came up with a similar solution and received $10,500. The non-monetary prize winners of the DetectaRobo challenge are Ved Deshpande and M. Henry Linder.
Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection had the following to say about these solutions: “We hope the winners bring their dynamic solutions to the marketplace soon… Their products may block billions of unwanted robocalls, and help people report illegal robocallers to law enforcement.”