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Featuring OPI leaders, emerging startups, and seasoned investors
Spotlight on OSCP: Transforming Motion Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles currently rely on GPS and can become misguided in GPS-denied environments like parking garages or tunnels. Cohort 4 startup, One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP), is advancing safety and […]
Spotlight on PreAct Technologies: Saving Lives with Car Crash Prevention
Today’s automotive safety systems are designed to either avoid or respond to collisions. PreAct Technologies, a startup in cohort 4 of the Luminate accelerator, is focused on detecting car crashes before they […]
Spotlight on Owl AI: Unlocking Safe Autonomous Operation
To make a vehicle safer, perception systems need to be able to emulate what we do as humans — not only see but identify and classify objects, and estimate where […]
Spotlight on Organic Robotics Corporation: Measuring Muscle Activity at the Speed of Light
When athletes wear Organic Robotics Corporation‘s Light Lace sensors in the form of a compression garment, their coaches and trainers have real-time access to data that can help them avoid […]
Spotlight on Andluca Technologies: Making Glass Smarter and More Efficient
Smart glass solutions improve building energy efficiency and occupant comfort. But current products require external wiring, which means they can’t be integrated into most existing buildings. That’s a big problem. […]
Spotlight on Infrascreen: Bringing Better Climate Control to Greenhouse Growers
High-tech greenhouses are the only way to grow fruits and vegetables without pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, but they use (and waste) a lot of energy. Infrascreen is on a mission […]
Spotlight on Dynocardia: Changing the Way We Measure and Manage Blood Pressure
Even if you manage to get an accurate blood pressure reading from a cuff-based device, you only have a single measurement. Dynocardia, a startup in Luminate’s fourth cohort, came up […]
Growing a Family at Sydor Optics
Matt Sydor refers to Rochester, NY as the “Mecca of optics.” Program Manager at Sydor Technologies, Matt shares why Rochester is a great place for a career in optics, and […]
The Optical Systems Technology Program at MCC
Across the country and around the globe, there’s a shortage of trained optical technicians needed to fill essential jobs. Dr. Alexis Vogt, Endowed Chair and Professor of Optics at Monroe […]
