The desire to create is fundamental to being human, especially for those who have answered the call to pursue the technical arts. At Centeye, our goal is to create technologies that not only work, but both inspire and enable you to accomplish new things in the fields of drones, robotics, and the internet of things. We do this through an understanding that the true constraints to a solution are those grounded in the laws of nature and not by precedent and convention. We similarly seek inspiration from nature, whether for sensing architectures, processing methods, or physical structures. With such a mindset, it is possible to implement systems with performance levels several orders of magnitude beyond what is otherwise possible. We invent from first principle. We want to help you do the same.
Drones and Robotics
The next generation of miniature drones needs technologies to provide autonomy to enable a diverse set of applications over a diverse set of environments. We are using holistic design principles to construct vision-based systems providing vision in seemingly impossibly small form factor yet operate over all light levels (day to dark). Centeye’s principals have been involved in the miniature drone space since the 1990s and have made fundamental contributions to the field, including being the first to fly an optical flow sensor on a drone, the first to fly a neuromorphic vision sensor on a drone, and the first to provide either altitude control or obstacle avoidance to a drone. We are now bringing decades of research to new sensor designs for widespread use
Internet of Things
Whether for physical analytics or for public health and safety, there is a need to visually monitor an environment. Our sensors can be used to monitor an environment while drawing very little power. More important, our sensors can ensure that useful data is acquired while guaranteeing the privacy of individuals.
Vision Chips
Centeye is, at its core, a fabless semiconductor company in the field of image sensors and vision chips. We develop vision chip architectures that fill capability gaps left by the image sensor industry. The result is a class of vision chips that are easy to interface with modest processors yet can achieve frame rates, form factors, and/or dynamic ranges not possible using standard image sensors. Our vision chips are 100% designed in the USA and are made either in the USA or in Germany.