Wireless drone charging solutions provider WiBotic today announced it has raised $5.7 million, which it will use to expand its product offerings and enhance customer support. CEO Ben Waters says the plan is to grow WiBotic’s sales team over the next few months as the company advances various internal hardware and software engineering efforts.
Drones — whether aerial, mobile, or marine — need power. Some operate nearly continuously day and night, pausing only to recharge. WiBotic supplies some of the technologies that enable this, from wireless chargers to power optimization chips for a growing number of autonomous robots. Its technology builds on more than eight years of research at the University of Washington, incorporating inductive and resonant systems in an approach called “adaptive matching” that constantly monitors antenna position and dynamically adjusts hardware and firmware parameters to maintain efficiency.
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