{"id":132005,"date":"2021-12-08T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-sky-wins-darpa-grant-to-work-on-focused-power-beaming-system-for-drones"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T21:22:31","slug":"electric-sky-wins-darpa-grant-to-work-on-focused-power-beaming-system-for-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-sky-wins-darpa-grant-to-work-on-focused-power-beaming-system-for-drones","title":{"rendered":"Electric Sky wins DARPA grant to work on focused power beaming system for drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-sky-wins-darpa-grant-to-work-on-focused-power-beaming-system-for-drones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric Sky says it\u2019s begun building its first transmitter for providing tightly focused wireless power to drones in flight, thanks to funding from DARPA.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A startup called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.el-sky.com\/\">Electric Sky<\/a> says it\u2019s begun building its first Whisper Beam transmitter for providing tightly focused wireless power to drones in flight, thanks to a $225,000 award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Electric Sky will use the six-month Phase I award, granted through DARPA\u2019s Small Business Innovation Research program, to explore ways to adapt its wireless architecture to power a swarm of drones.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the project calls for building and testing a lab-bench demonstration system that would operate at short distances. Those experiments are expected to supply data that can be used to upgrade the system for higher power and longer distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Sky says it\u2019s begun building its first transmitter for providing tightly focused wireless power to drones in flight, thanks to funding from DARPA. A startup called Electric Sky says it\u2019s begun building its first Whisper Beam transmitter for providing tightly focused wireless power to drones in flight, thanks to a $225,000 award from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}