Electronic Systems and Components

Alien Technology

Brief Description

Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies, and products. The company has offices in the US, China, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Australia and other parts of Asia, supplying customers worldwid with UHF passive EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6c compliant RFID transceiver chips transceiver chips, tags, inlays and labels, fixed and mobile readers, and related professional services for item tagging, retail/apparel, transportation, life sciences, and many...

Ekso Bionics

Brief Description

Since 2005, Ekso Bionics has used exoskeleton technology to enhance natural abilities and improve quality of life. The exoskeleton industry leader, offering technologies that help those with paralysis to stand up and walk, enhancing worker capabilities globally, and providing research for the advancement of R&D projects intended to benefit U.S. defense capabilities.

Formerly known as Berkeley Bionics and Berkeley Exotech.

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2014. The company acquired PN Med Group Inc. through a reverse merger,...

CNNSuperChip, Inc.

Brief Description

CNNSuperChip was founded to commercialize a supercomputer on a chip, called a cellular neural network, with a parallel analong array processor architecture similar to the retina.

Timeline 2006. Company founded Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Grafty, Inc.

Brief Description

Grafty is a Berkeley-originated computer vision startup bringing face detection, tracking, recognition and biometrics solution to mobile platforms to bolster consumer, healthcare, and security industries. Built on extensive experience, Grafty plan to democratize computer vision and make it more accessible by inventing a state-of-the-art computer vision platform that is super simple to use for research and can operate at scale in real-time industrial applications.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Allen Yang,...

FLX Micro, Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

FLX Micro, Inc. manufactures silicon carbide-based microsensors. The company develops its products through silicon carbide deposition and microfabrication technology platform. Its products are used in various applications, such as automotive, energy, environmental, and manufacturing. The company was formerly known as Fiberlead, Inc.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. INVENTOR

Di Gao, Roger Howe, Roya Maboudian

Chirp Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

Chirp Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a line of extremely low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions for consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial automation, and much more. The company's ultrasonic 3D-sensing systems offer millimeter-accurate range information, based on machine learning and neural network algorithms and outperform infrared-based alternatives by every metric in real-world applications like consumer electronics, smart homes and industrial automation, enabling clients to avail the always-on sensing for...

Calimetrics, Inc.

Brief Description

In the early 1990s, UC Berkeley biophysics doctoral students Michael O'Neill and Terrence Wong, under the guidance of their professor Allan Bearden, developed a laser measurement innovation that led to the foundation of Calimetrics, Inc. in 1994 and to the subsequent development of MLTM (MultiLevel) Recording for optical data storage systems.

MLTM Recording: Unlike conventional binary recording, ML Recording allows data to be stored in marks (or pits) of multiple levels of reflectivity, thereby increasing data density on the surface of read-only,...

Berkeley Open Arms

Brief Description

Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware. Berkeley Open Arms manufactured the BLUE robot arm that was developed at UC Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab. BLUE is a low-cost, high-performance robot that is intrinsically safe, developed from the ground up with ever-increasing artificial intelligence capabilities in mind. BLUE was designed to use recent advances in AI and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks, while remaining affordable and safe.

Formerly known as Berkeley Open Robotics, Inc.

Timeline 2018. Company founded Inventors

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Nanosys

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 Inventors

Ali Shakouri, Arunava Majumdar, Peidong Yang, Yiying Wu, Rong Fan, Timothy Sands, Haoquan Yan, Eicke Weber, Richard Russo, Johannes Kind, Samuel Mao, Henning Feick...

Monolets, Inc

Brief Description

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.

Inventors David Burnett, Osama Khan, Kristofer Pister, Bradley Wheeler