Latest Photon Queue news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $500K raised. 1 article tracked by The Robotics Media.
Photon Queue is a quantum hardware startup founded in 2024 and spun out of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The company builds room-temperature free-space quantum memories that store single photons using linear optics, without cryogenics, ovens or vacuum systems.
Its devices are designed to solve one of the biggest challenges in scaling quantum computers and networks: ensuring photons arrive at the right place and at exactly the right time. The technology was pioneered over two decades in the group of UIUC physics professor Paul Kwiat and is being commercialized by co-founder and CEO Nathan Arnold.