About
About Pliant Energy Systems
Pliant Energy Systems has developed an extraordinary new engineering paradigm for harnessing the energy of flowing fluid, and for making fluid flow with as little energy as possible. All the technologies emerging from this paradigm concern blade-less interactions with fluid. For example, undulating surfaces instead of spinning propellers, and undulating surfaces instead of spinning turbines.
These technologies have direct applications in defense, marine propulsion, ocean exploration, renewable energy and water. Some applications are in very large markets with the potential to solve humanitarian and planetary problems not fully addressed by established technologies. These include creating electricity from streams and rivers and supplying clean water for drinking and irrigation in developing regions of the world.
Pliant has an IP base of twenty two patents to date, know-how and closely-held trade secrets. Funding has streamed through Federal and State grants and Federal contracts. R&D has been executed through a program combining thousands of hours of numerical modeling with lab testing and prototype builds. The most notable builds to date are Velox and C-Ray, agile swimming robots that can transition from water to land, and travel over sand, snow and ice, funded in part by the United States Office of Naval Research.
Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Founder & CEO
Dr. Daniel Zimmerman
Chief Scientist
Carles Civit
Director of Engineering
Russell Bingham
Head of Product Development, Lead Robotics Engineer
Frank Filardo
Senior Consultant
Patents
24 granted (13 US) and multiple pending
Sponsors
US Office of Naval Research (ONR)
US Department of Energy (DOE)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Empire State Development Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR)
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
Grants/Contracts
Office of Naval Research # N00014-24C-2411
Office of Naval Research # N00014-21C-2040
Office of Naval Research # N00014-16C-3042
Office Office of Naval Research SBIR award # N00014-11M-0259
Office of Naval Research SBIR award #N00014-12C-0604
DOE SBIR award # DE-SC0019962
NSF SBIR award #1315383
USDA SBIR award # 2013-33610-20836
NYSERDA (PON 2022) award #23139
NYSERDA (PON 2569) award #30364
Memberships
NewLab
International Ocean Science and Technology Industry Association (IOSTIA)
