Nanotronics Imaging is a nanotechnology startup in

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. It has an office in

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and manufactures its devices in

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History

Nanotronics was founded by Matthew Putman, a materials science professor at

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, and his father John Putman. Nanotronics has received $7 million in

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funding from

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and

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founder

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, who sits on the company's board of directors. In 2015, Nanotronics acquired Franklin Mechanical & Control, a manufacturer of optical equipment based in

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Products

Nanotronics builds hardware and software that can be used to see features down to the nanometer scale. It integrates off-the-shelf high resolution microscopes with custom software, including

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

. Nanotronics technology has a number of medical applications, such as screening for cervical cancer. In April 2015, Nanotronics announced a new

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...

system, called nVisible, that allows anyone to "walk through" a 3D model of objects at the microscopic scale.

References

External links

Company website
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