Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion
Optical sensors recognize what is in the scene, radar measures range and closing speed, and inertial and satellite positioning track the vehicle's own motion. DriveNoggin™ fuses them into one consistent picture.
Etechstars · DriveNoggin™
ETECHSTARS builds DriveNoggin™, a perception and intelligence platform that fuses optical sensing, radar and inertial positioning into one live, measurable understanding of the world around a vehicle.
Who we are
We build sensing and intelligence systems for machines that operate in the real world, and we are clear about what they can and cannot see.
DriveNoggin™ is our proprietary sensing and intelligence technology. It turns raw signals from several kinds of sensors into a single, time-aligned picture of a vehicle's surroundings: what is there, how far away it is, how it is moving and what it means.
Optical sensors recognize what is in the scene, radar measures range and closing speed, and inertial and satellite positioning track the vehicle's own motion. DriveNoggin™ fuses them into one consistent picture.
Vehicles, people, signs and signals are detected, classified and placed in the vehicle's own frame of reference, each one carrying a measured distance.
Objects keep stable identities over time. Motion is judged statistically, so parked vehicles stay parked, moving traffic is followed and positions are predicted seconds ahead.
Maps stored on the vehicle anchor everything to the road network, adding lane and junction context with no connection required.
Every sensor is captured against one master clock into integrity-checked sessions that replay exactly, for review, validation and continuous improvement.
All perception runs on an edge computer installed in the vehicle. There is no cloud round-trip between what the vehicle senses and what it understands.
Living things never rely on a single sense. They combine sight, motion and balance into one instinctive picture of the world. DriveNoggin™ brings the same principle to machines: complementary sensing modalities, one shared clock, and AI that reasons over all of them together. Our underlying methods are proprietary; we share technical detail with partners under NDA.
Sense
Fuse & understand
Understand
Concept imageOur first product brings DriveNoggin™ sensing and intelligence to commercial fleets: a no-drill retrofit kit with on-board AI, live surround awareness and a complete, replayable record of every trip.
ETECHSTARS is a deep-tech company building sensing and intelligence systems for machines that operate in the real world. Our DriveNoggin™ technology combines complementary sensing modalities with on-board AI to give vehicles, and the people who run them, a clear and verifiable understanding of their surroundings.
We believe perception should be measured, verified and honest about its limits. We state plainly what we have demonstrated and what is still in development. FleetX Lite, our first product, brings this approach to commercial fleets.

Our Vision
A world where every machine that moves understands its surroundings accurately, and can show how it knows.
Our Mission
To build sensing and intelligence systems that are accurate, verifiable and practical to deploy on the vehicles people already use.
Our Commitment
Honest engineering. Our systems report what they measure, flag what they cannot see and never fill gaps with guesswork.
Our Innovation
Through DriveNoggin™, we develop proprietary perception methods inspired by how living things sense the world, combining complementary senses into one picture.
Locations
Offices in the United States and India.
Detroit, MI
42.33° N, 83.05° W
Focus: Research & development
Houghton, MI
47.12° N, 88.57° W
Focus: Research & development
San Francisco, CA
37.77° N, 122.42° W
Office: San Francisco Bay Area
Bengaluru, KA
12.97° N, 77.59° E
Established: 2024
Focus: Engineering: sensor fusion and perception software
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Product updates, partnerships, research milestones and life at ETECHSTARS.
ProductOctober 20263 min read
Our first product brings multi-modal sensing, on-board AI and replayable trip records to the vehicles fleets already run. Pilot discussions are now open.
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TechnologyOctober 20253 min read
Our nature-inspired AI framework combines complementary senses into one picture of the world, the foundation of everything we build.

AchievementsSeptember 26, 20243 min read
ETECHSTARS won at the ASME IDETC-CIE Hack-a-Thon in Washington, D.C., showcasing our DriveNoggin™ perception technology.
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