ANU spin-off Liquid Instruments launches new hardware

From gravitational wave science to global technology company: Liquid Instruments is a Canberra start-up bringing NASA technology to the world.
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Liquid Instruments (LI) Pty Ltd, a spin-off company from the Australian National University (ANU), is revolutionising the $17b test and measurement market. Test and Measurement devices are used by scientists and engineers to measure, generate and process the electronic signals that are fundamental to the photonics, semiconductor, aerospace and automotive industries. The LI team has raised more than $25M USD in Venture Capital investment, and now has more than 1000 users in 30 countries.

MokuGo: an engineering lab in a backpack

​LI was founded by researchers from the gravitational wave group at ANU to commercialise advanced instrumentation technology derived from both ground and space-based gravity detectors. OzGrav Chief Investigator Daniel Shaddock (ANU), CEO of Liquid Instruments, began as an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2002, working on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency. The work on LISA’s phasemeter was the genesis for forming Liquid Instruments.
LI’s software-enabled hardware employs advanced digital signal processing to replace multiple pieces of conventional equipment at a fraction of the cost and with a drastically improved user experience. Their first product Moku:Lab provides the functionality of 12 instruments in one simple integrated unit. 

LI CEO and OzGrav Investigator Prof Daniel Shaddock at the ANU launch.

ANU Vice Chancellor and Nobel Laureate in Physics Prof Brain Schmidt at the Liquid Instruments launch event at ANU.

On 23 June, the company launched two new hardware devices, the Moku:Go—an engineering lab in a backpack for education, and the Moku:Pro – a multi-GHz device for professional scientists and engineers. Lik the Moku:Lab, this revolutionary new hardware includes a suite of instruments with robust hardware features giving a breakthrough combination of performance and versatility.

Daniel Shaddock says: “Moku:Pro takes software defined instrumentation to the next level with more than 10x improvements in many dimensions. Moku:Pro is a new weapon for scientists. Moku:Go takes all the great features of Moku:Lab but reduces the cost by 10x to make it more accessible than ever before. We hope it will help train the next generation of scientists and engineers in universities around the world.  

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The new Moku:Pro hardware with iPad user interface undergoing testing in the OzGrav lab at ANU.