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$6.8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$6.8M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
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2
Scale Capital, Skyfall Ventures
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24 months since the last round · not hiring
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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
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| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
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| Venture round | Oct 2024 | $6.8M | — | menafn.com |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sonair To Debut 'World's First' Safe 3D Ultrasonic Sensor For Autonomous Robots At Automate 2025
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Sonair to Debut World's First Safe 3D Ultrasonic Sensor for Autonomous Robots at Automate 2025
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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 |

Scale Capital
Skyfall Ventures 



