Instruments for science that moves too fast to follow.

Averon Scientific grew out of research at Imperial College London. Our team was studying insect flight, and kept hitting the same wall — insects move far too fast for a person to track by hand with a camera, so capturing usable high-speed footage was almost impossible.

So we prototyped a fix: a system that reads a motion-capture feed and re-aims the camera itself, on millisecond timescales. After years of refining it in the lab, it became DART-Mo — accurate, quick to set up, and now available to other researchers.

Today we design automatic tracking and filming systems for scientific work, and take on instrumentation consulting for labs whose problems don’t have an off-the-shelf answer.