About Opteran
Opteran builds software it calls Opteran Mind, which gives robots and other machines navigation and obstacle avoidance without GPS. The methods come from reverse-engineering the brains of insects, and are meant to need far less data and computing power than conventional deep learning. This is a neuromorphic approach, meaning it copies biological neural design. The company is based in Sheffield, England, and grew out of research at the University of Sheffield.
Opteran was founded in 2019 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. It is listed under Neuromorphic Computing, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $10M+ Series A.
Compute Technologies
- Neuromorphic
What Opteran works on
Neuromorphic Computing
Neuromorphic computing builds chips that copy some features of the brain. Instead of a central processor and separate memory, a neuromorphic chip has many small units that act like neurons, each with its own local memory, joined by connections that act like synapses.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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