welcome to centeye

Inspired by Real Insect Intelligence

Ultra low SWAP (size, weight, and power)

Meet the reduced payload capacities of palm-sized “nano” drones.

Designed for Small Drone and Robotics

The only vision sensors fully designed, from the ground up, by practicing roboticists specifically for small drones and robotics.

Artificial Intelligence or Natural Intelligence?

Inspiration from biology? Neural network structures? Engineered for practicality? Yes!

Drones and Robotics

The next generation of miniature drones need technologies to allow autonomous or semi-autonomous operation in close-ground and indoor environments. This includes flying around obstacles and through openings, hovering in place without GPS or ground texture, and flight through tunnels. This also includes operation in all light levels (day to dark) including seamless transition between bright and dark areas. Centeye has developed technology to support these abilities including sensors weighing as little as a gram apiece. We do this using our proprietary in-house developed neuromorphic vision chips and a unique holistic design methodology in which silicon and algorithms are co-designed. The low mass of our technology is unmatched in the industry. 

Internet of Things

Whether for physical analytics or for public health and safety, there is a need to visually monitor an environment. Our sensors can be used to monitor an environment while drawing very little power. More important, our sensors can ensure that useful data is acquired while guaranteeing the privacy of
individuals.

Vision Chips

Centeye is, at its core, a fabless semiconductor company in the field of image sensors and vision chips. We develop vision chip architectures that fill capability gaps left by the image sensor industry. The result is a class of vision chips that are easy to interface with modest processors yet can achieve frame rates, form factors, and/or dynamic ranges not possible using standard image sensors. Our vision chips are 100% designed in the USA and are made either in the USA or in Germany.