Fabless semiconductor company Optera Solutions, which is commercialising “event-based sensing” (EBS) technology developed at Western Sydney University, was selected to join Thales’s Space Business Catalyst Program in Toulouse. The French-headquartered defence contractor announced this week that Optera began its six-month residency in the September 2024 intake of the SBC, which selects the “most promising global…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Monash betadine battery breakthrough begets new company Engineering researchers from Monash University have formed a new lithium sulphur (Li-S) battery startup, armed with chemistry inspired by an over-the-counter antiseptic and initially targeting drone applications. According to a statement from the…
In the first profile as part of our Australia’s 50 Most Innovative Manufacturers campaign, we look at a business that is borrowing from nature to build event-based vision sensors. Brent Balinski speaks to Optera Solutions founder/CEO Jonathon Wolfe. As anybody who has tried to do it will tell you, taking research breakthroughs and turning them…