MuMec builds wireless transceiver technologies that drastically reduce power consumption for use with Bluetooth LE (BLE) and LoRa/Sigfox protocols. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, MuMec integrates Radio Frequency MEMS technology with CMOS design, offering a 10-100x reduction in power consumption, enabling consumer devices and IoT applications to extend battery life, enable always-on wireless connectivity, and operate entirely on scavenged power.
The company is disrupting the wireless communication market by offering the truly ultra-low power wireless ICs...
nEye Systems is a next-generation optical switch company. Their programmable photonic integrated circuit integrates high-radix optical circuit switching on a Si chip and is a future-proof solution for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) systems and other high-performance computing environments. Their optical switches are poised to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the growth and adoption of AI/ML – the excessive costs of power requirements and network expansion.
nEye’s wafer-scale optical circuit switch offers direct optical connections,...
ScaleLight is developing surface-emitting lasers that boost efficiency and scalability for powering everything from manufacturing and fusion plants to data centers and quantum computers. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Boubacar Kanté, whose groundbreaking research solved a longstanding optics challenge to create compact, lightweight, high-efficiency lasers, called Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers, or BerkSEL, for greener manufacturing and energy. ...
Ambi Robotics offers advanced robot grasping software for logistics and warehouse order fulfillment, allowing robots to grasp a wide variety of objects.
Ambi Robotics grew from the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) project at UC Berkeley and is led by Dr. Jeff Mahler and Professor Ken Goldberg, experts in robot grasping with a combined 50+ years of experience.
SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions that accelerate research and development and enable cost-effective manufacturing of high-performance micro- and nano-materials, including lithium-ion batteries, membranes, semiconductors, flexible electronics, packaging materials, and many others. The company's real-time manufacturing intelligence platform, designed for cost-effective manufacturing of thin films, utilizes cold atmospheric plasma and physics-informed machine learning to collect critical manufacturing data and improve manufacturing quality and output....
Brief Description SiNANOdeª, a silicon-graphite anode material, improves the performance of lithium-ion batteries: Significant increase over existing solutions in full cell energy density and cycle life. Manufacturing process compatible with existing graphite-anode electrode production equipment. Scalable SiNANOdeª production processes available now for technology transfer and licensing. Timeline 2001. Company founded 2023. Acquired by Shoei Chemical, as an operating subsidiary Inventors
Ali Shakouri, Arunava Majumdar, Peidong Yang, Yiying Wu...
Adapta Imaging, Inc. is developing a new type of radiofrequency (RF) coil, an essential component of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) hardware, which can operate at any frequency. The Any-nucleus Distributed Active Programmable Transmit (ADAPT) coil was invented at UC Berkeley in the lab of Dr. Chunlei Liu, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. The ADAPT coil converts direct current power into RF magnetic fields with frequencies chosen by digital control signals, eliminating the need for...
MonoLets, Inc. is a systems company developing a wireless sensor network for the Internet of Things. The company builds the network with the lowest power System-on-Chip (SoC) hardware platform that can be operated from harvested energy requiring no external battery. The company's patented silicon and wireless mesh technology was developed over five years of research and development at UC Berkeley. Monolets' mission is to enable extremely reliable connectivity in challenging RF environments (metal & liquid obstruction), thereby providing access to real-time information...
