Palm-Sized Radar for Small Drones – Under Development
A new radar-equipped drone took off last month in Texas for a series of tests aimed at finding out how well Bellevue-based Echodyne’s miniaturized detect-and-avoid radar could spot obstacles and other aircrafts. The results confirmed that Echodyne is in the right direction.
“It’s great to see our technology performing in real-world field tests exactly as designed,” Eben Frankenberg, Echodyne’s founder and CEO, said in a news release.
Echodyne is working on palm-sized radar systems that can be mounted on small delivery drones as well as autonomous vehicles for navigational purposes. The technology takes advantage of artificial materials to produce scanning arrays that have no moving parts.
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