area17, Inc. develops a vision system for drones to operate collision-free in unstructured, GPS-denied indoor, urban, and harsh environments with no operator supervision. The company’s product includes a combination of commodity sensors and processors and a software stack that provides navigation information to machines for collision avoidance, obstacle detection, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.