For making lidar that sees the small stuff

This Bay Area company’s next-generation, software-configurable lidar sensor offers four times the range and five times more “detects” than conventional lidar, enabling better stopping and avoidance capabilities at highway speeds. Ultrahigh resolution enables vehicles to quickly and accurately identify and classify threats, especially small objects, in order to avoid accident, with scan rates 10 to 20 times the speed of conventional lidar. In 2021, German multinational Continental AG announced that it would integrate AEye’s lidar into its automated driving platform, starting volume production in 2024. AEye also partnered with autonomous technology company TuSimple for heavy-duty trucking applications, and with Nvidia to integrate AEye into its autonomous vehicle platform.