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Briefing
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- Miniature Drone Chip – MIT researchers developed new chip for miniature drones that is smaller and consumes less power than previous chip in 2017
- Smaller Chip – Chip, called Navion, is built from ground up, and has size of 20 square millimeters, similar to LEGO minifigure’s footprint
- Energy Efficient – Consumes 24 milliwatts, one-thousandth energy required to power lightbulb, by compressing images that can be stored and reducing unnecessary operations
- Image Processing – Can capture images at 171 frames per second, compared to DJI’s Phantom 3 drone that can take 30 frames per second
- Applications – Include helping miniature drones as small as fingernail, as well as small robots and medical devices, navigate where global positioning system (GPS) data is unavailable
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Sector
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Consumer Durables, Healthcare/Health Sciences, Information Technology
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Organization
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Source
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Chu, J., "Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate",
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Holloway, J., "Tiny chip brings micro-drones closer to reality",
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Zhou, M., "An MIT chip may power long-lasting, bug-size drones",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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June 20, 2018
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