Notch

Notch develops adaptive antenna and beam-steering technology for drones, ground robots, autonomous vehicles and contested RF environments. Its systems are designed to improve wireless links on mobile platforms where weight, power use and reliable connectivity are critical constraints.

Market context

Notch sits in the enabling RF layer for autonomous systems rather than the robot platform layer. Its metamaterial antenna approach targets a real bottleneck for drones and mobile robots: maintaining directional, resilient links without the size, weight, power and cost burden of conventional phased arrays.

Products

MAGIC Series

Facts

Website: https://www.notchtechnologies.com
HQ: Cambridge, United States
Segment: electronics and robotics components

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 contract award; latest event 2022-01-01

2022-01-01 - Contract award - Notch receives Phase II SBIR funding for signature-reduction metasurfaces on Group 1 UAV platforms - source: sbir.gov

Software-defined RF metamaterials for autonomous systems

Notch develops software-defined metamaterial RF systems for electronically steerable antennas and related communications, sensing and navigation applications. Its MAGIC Series targets drones, ground robots, vehicles and ground stations that need directional RF performance while preserving low size, weight and power.

Target environment: Drones, ground robots, autonomous vehicles, ground stations, defence systems and wireless platforms operating in congested or degraded RF environments.
Deployment model: Component and subsystem supplier model for OEMs, defence programs and autonomous-system integrators.
Customer context: Unmanned-system builders, defence users, ground-station operators and wireless-platform developers that need greater range and RF resilience without replacing existing radios.
Workflow context: Drone communications, ground-station links, vehicle communications, interference resilience, directional RF steering, sensing and navigation support.
Commercial maturity: Product family publicly launched with production hardware, active defence-contract context and prior SBIR-backed metamaterial development.
Market position: Component-layer RF startup positioned as a lower-SWaP alternative to conventional phased arrays for small autonomous platforms.
Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on OEM integration, band support, platform-specific RF validation and field performance in contested or reflective environments.
Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes UAV communications and autonomous vehicle subsystems via shared requirements in link reliability, low-SWaP hardware, interference resistance and software-defined RF control.
Source confidence: high

Events

2026-05-18 - Product Launch - Notch launches MAGIC software-defined metamaterial antennas for drones, vehicles and ground stations - Notch introduced MAGIC as a family of software-defined metamaterial antennas for drones, vehicles, ground stations and other wireless platforms. The systems use electronically reconfigurable metamaterial structures to shape and steer RF energy across 360 degr…

Team

Shahriar Khushrushahi - Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Leads Notch software-defined metamaterial RF platform and MAGIC antenna product strategy.

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