{"id":79961,"date":"2018-06-24T04:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chip-upgrade-helps-miniature-drones-navigate"},"modified":"2018-06-24T04:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T11:44:25","slug":"chip-upgrade-helps-miniature-drones-navigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/chip-upgrade-helps-miniature-drones-navigate","title":{"rendered":"Chip upgrade helps miniature drones navigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chip-upgrade-helps-miniature-drones-navigate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The team, co-led by Vivienne Sze, associate professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Sertac Karaman, the Class of 1948 Career Development Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, built a fully customized <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chip<\/a> from the ground up, with a focus on reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power+consumption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power consumption<\/a> and size while also increasing processing speed.<\/p>\n<p>The new computer chip, named \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/navion.mit.edu\/\">Navion<\/a>,\u201d which they are <a href=\"http:\/\/navion.mit.edu\/2018_vlsi_navion.pdf\">presenting this week<\/a> at the Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, is just 20 square millimeters\u2014about the size of a LEGO minifigure\u2019s footprint\u2014and consumes just 24 milliwatts of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a>, or about one-thousandth the energy required to power a lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-06-chip-miniature-drones.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;06-chip-miniature-drones.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized drones navigate, have now shrunk their chip design even further, in both size and power consumption. The team, co-led by Vivienne Sze, associate professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Sertac Karaman, the Class of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79961","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}