Averon Scientific is now a company. After years of work inside a research lab at Imperial College London, the team behind DART-Mo has founded a company to bring the instrument to other researchers.
It started with a problem
The lab was studying insect flight. Insects move far too fast for a person to track by hand with a camera, so capturing usable high-speed footage was almost impossible — the subject would be out of frame before the operator could react.
So the team prototyped a fix: a system that reads a motion-capture feed and re-aims the camera's line of sight automatically, on millisecond timescales. It worked, and over several iterations it became reliable, quick to set up, and accurate enough to measure from. That instrument is DART-Mo.
From lab tool to product
Once other groups started asking whether they could use it, the path was clear. Averon Scientific was founded in 2026 to turn the lab tool into a product — and to take on the wider instrumentation problems that labs face when nothing off the shelf will do.
Who we are
The company is led by a small team of scientists and engineers who designed, built and tested DART-Mo together. We are based in London, with strong ongoing ties to the Imperial College London lab where the instrument was first built.
What comes next
Our focus now is the first production run of DART-Mo and the DART Live software around it. Alongside the product, we take on scientific instrumentation consulting for labs whose problems do not have an off-the-shelf answer. If that is you, get in touch.
