LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan has introduced the recipients of the “Make it in Michigan” Mobility Prototyping Grant winners, with chosen tasks receiving a complete of $2 million in funding.
The Michigan Workplace of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) and the Michigan Workplace of Protection and Aerospace Innovation (ODAI) report that the grant program awards as much as $100,000 per firm to “accelerate product development, prototyping, and manufacturing readiness for innovations spanning air, ground, and maritime mobility, including autonomous systems, drones, and critical mobility components.”
“These projects represent the ingenuity powering Michigan’s next generation of mobility and defense solutions,” Justine Johnson, Chief Mobility Officer, Michigan Financial Growth Company (MEDC), stated in a information launch despatched to six Information.
“By supporting more prototyping, supplier engagement, and early production in Michigan, we’re strengthening our state’s industrial base, creating good-paying jobs, and ensuring that breakthrough technologies are designed, built, and scaled right here at home. Congratulations to this year’s awardees.”
Corporations and Michigan-made undertaking grant recipients
AG3 Labs (Milford, MI) – Develop a home, NDAA-compliant flight-critical {hardware} stack for autonomous unmanned aerial automobile (UAV) swarms.
ALBA Robotic (Turino, Italy – Workplace in Detroit) – Develop an autonomous items mover robotic that transports baggage and private belongings in giant services.
Baker Engineering LLC (Nunica, MI) – Develop a low-cost hybrid internal-combustion propulsion system for UAVs.
Bigelow Household Holdings, LLC DBA Mettle Ops (Madison Heights, MI) – Develop an automatic stator winding system for unmanned aerial system (UAS) motors.
Birdstop (Harmony, CA) – Develop an NDAA-compliant EO digicam module for small UAS with prototypes and Michigan sourcing.
Blue Satan Ventures (Southfield, MI) – Advance a light-weight multispectral AI system on sub-250g UAS for precision agriculture.
Cobra MOTO (Hillsdale, MI) – Design and prototype an electrified navy motorbike with iterative prototyping and FEA.
Darkflite Inc (Brighton, MI) – Construct a tiltrotor-based kinetic UAS prototype with built-in focusing on and provide launcher.
Normal Orbit (Birmingham, MI) – Advance a magnetometer-based ADCS house know-how to manufacturable {hardware} with Michigan suppliers.
Intermode (Canton, MI) – Combine air + floor drones through a robotic module with built-in UAS.
KB Powertrain Inc (Kalamazoo, MI) – Construct and validate an electrified axle prototype (eRHINO) for business autos.
LIVAQ (Detroit, MI) – Design and validate modular battery packs built-in into structural prototypes for electrical ATV.
LiveRoad Analytics (Ann Arbor, MI) – Scale manufacturing of cell climate sensors for fleets with Michigan-based suppliers.
Michigan Area Applied sciences (Ann Arbor, MI) – Develop a hybrid EM-assisted low-orbit house propulsion demonstrator towards micro-launch techniques.
Milton Manufacturing (Detroit, MI) – Construct a transportable hybrid microgrid with built-in power techniques and DFM upgrades for each business and protection purposes.
Modal Motors (Farmington Hills, MI) – Design and prototype UAS drone motors and ESCs with U.S.-made non-rare-earth magnets.
Motmot (Detroit, MI) – Develop a wise Nexus entry gadget for autonomous underwater inspection robots in stay water mains.
Mutually Assured Growth (Southfield, MI) – Construct a sub-250g modular UAS for protected indoor post-fire evaluation with sensing and reporting.
Neumo (Birmingham, MI) – Prototype contactless headrest covers with brainwave-sensing know-how to watch driver distraction and impairment.
Orb Aerospace (Lowell, MI) – Design and prototype customized U.S.-made motors for UAS.
RoboWorkx Inc (Southfield, MI) – DFM and prototypes of floor robotic system utilizing MI suppliers.
SeaLandAire Inc (Jackson, MI) – Construct a bigger composite hull for ADARO-X unmanned water floor vessel for open-ocean operations.
Sigma Powertrain (Wayne, MI) – Construct a multi-ratio all-electric powertrain demo automobile for mining haul vehicles.
Swarm Protection Applied sciences (Auburn Hills, MI) – Set up a compliant, high-throughput manufacturing line to mass-produce low-cost attritable goal drones for C-sUAS coaching, moreover co-develop and validate Michigan-made UAV battery packs.
TreeTown Tech (Ann Arbor, MI) – Design and demo a U.S.-designed NDAA-compliant UAV flight controller for Michigan drone firm.
Voltaic Marine (Southfield, MI) – Combine autonomy for electrical unmanned water floor vessel for at-sea operations.
Wheel Me Inc (Detroit, MI) – Develop heavy-duty autonomous wheel modules for bigger payload transport for materials dealing with in manufacturing operations.
