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Total raised
$6.8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$6.8M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
11-50
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Backers
2
Scale Capital, Skyfall Ventures
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24 months since the last round · not hiring
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Jul 1 Launched Sonair Launches Safety-Certified Sensor for Robots and Industrial Automation · Automation World Dec 26, 2024 On the Hacker News front page Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust · 104 points Oct 7, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $6.8M
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Venture round Oct 2024 $6.8M — menafn.com
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Overview

Sonair is building ADAR, a breakthrough 3D ultrasonic sensor for autonomous robots. The first commercial product is available now. Reach out for a demo.

News

News sonair.com 3 months ago
Sonair Journal Robot safety is now 3D: Sonair unveils world's first safety-certified 3D ultrasonic sensor for human-robot collaboration
The ADAR One sensor is now suitable for SIL2 and PL d applications and is certified to fulfil all requirements of the European machine directive as a sensor for the safe detection of humans and objects.
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News Automation World 3 months ago
Sonair Launches Safety-Certified Sensor for Robots and Industrial Automation
The company claims the sensor, which is designed for AMRs and industrial automation, is the first of its kind.
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News Machine Design 4 months ago
Sonair Hits Robotics Milestone with First Certified 3D Ultrasonic Safety Sensor
A newly certified 3D ultrasonic safety sensor is prompting a reassessment of how industrial robots achieve perception and functional safety in shared human environments.
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News sonair.com 10 months ago
Sonair Journal Building ADAR with Rust: Key compilation milestone achieved
Sonair has hit a major milestone: our ADAR firmware now compiles with the latest beta of Ferrocene, moving us closer to safety certification. This keeps us on track to deliver certified, high-performance sensing for autonomous robotics.
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News filtra.io 12 months ago
filtra.io Leading The Way For Safety Certified Rust: A Conversation With Espen Albrektsen Of Sonair
A filtra.io interview with Espen Albrektsen, who leads the software efforts at Sonair. Sonair is building a simpler, cheaper safety sensor using ultrasound. And, they're doing all the software in Rust! The work that Sonair and their partners are doing to
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News sonair.com 1 year ago
Sonair Journal Safety-certified Rust: How we're approaching It
In this long-form interview with Filtra.io, Sonair's Head of Software, Espen Albrektsen, lifts the curtain on the decision to use the Rust programming language to build the world's first safety-certified 3D ultrasonic sensor.
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News sonair.com 2 years ago
Sonair Journal Building functional safety at speed with Rust
Grab your biggest mug of coffee and learn how the open-source programming language Rust supercharges our development time of the breakthrough Sonair 3D ultrasonic sensor. Claim to fame: Sonair is on track to be among the first to deploy a safety-certified
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Financials

Total raised
$6.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $6.8M Details