Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables non-invasive body scans, underwater communication, and to help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications.
Sonair’s founder and CEO Knut Sandven believes the company’s application of ultrasound technology — a groundbreaking approach that reads sound waves to detect people and objects in 3D, with minimal energy and computational requirements — can be the basis of more useful and considerably less expensive solutions than today’s more standard approach using LIDAR.
Sonair has now raised $6 million in funding from early-stage specialists Skyfall and RunwayFBU, and is rolling out early access to its tech. Initially, it will be aimed at autonomous mobile robot developers, but its vision (heh) is to see it being used in other applications.
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