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Lumotive and ZKW Group jointly demonstrate vehicle headlight with integrated functional Lidar Lumotive and the ZKW Group unveiled a functional demonstration of Lumotive's lidar technology integrated with a ZKW vehicle headlight. The demonstration couples Lumotive's Meta-Lidar™ Platform with ZKW's advanced vehicle lighting technology to produce a headlight with superior road illumination capabilities, while also providing 3D sensing for advanced safety and autonomy features. Compared with previous generation lidar systems that use mechanical spinning assemblies and are known for being bulky and expensive, Lumotive's solid-state solution is tiny and scalable for seamless integration into many essential mobility products such as vehicle lighting systems. The ZKW integration features a prototype of the Lumotive M30 module, the workhorse of the Meta-Lidar™ platform, which uses pulsed laser beams to measure distances between objects and the sensors around the vehicle. The Meta-Lidar platform generates extremely accurate and precise spatial data that can be used by a driver to avoid collisions or to further automate driving scenarios. The scalability of Lumotive's products is enabled by the company's disruptive Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) solid-state beam steering chips, which significantly reduce the complexity, cost and size of lidar systems while improving performance and reliably operating in the challenging headlamp environment. Manufactured in proven and scalable CMOS semiconductor processes, LCM chips eliminate the need for bulky mechanical moving parts that challenge the cost and reliability of traditional lidar devices while delivering new levels of perception, detection and navigation in autonomous systems.
RoboSense showcases smart LiDAR RoboSense LiDAR exhibited its leading portfolio of smart LiDAR sensor solutions at CES 2022. Its star solution RS-LiDAR-M1 (M1) took the spotlight as the mass-produced automotive grade MEMS solid-state LiDAR, while Ruby Plus, which is a new 128-beam mechanical LiDAR made its international debut. RoboSense has also made the world premiere of its 128-beam mechanical LiDAR called Ruby Plus to the public at CES. After advancements in performance and design, The diameter has also been reduced from 166 mm to 125 mm, and the height has been reduced from 148.5 mm to 125 mm. Ruby Plus not only has a longer detection range and higher detection accuracy, but has also reduced its overall weight and volume by more than 50% and power consumption by 40% reduced from 45W to 27W, technical achievements that have drawn great interest from CES attendees. RoboSense also showcased RS-Helios-5515 at CES stand, a new 32-beam LiDAR customized for Alibaba's logistics robot Xiaomanlv, marking its debut at an international exhibition outside China. With an all-new technical structure, the new generation Helios LiDAR boasts a customized field of view (FoV) and achieves both long-range perception and near-field blind spot elimination, features that traditional mechanical LiDARs have yet to achieve. Its design arranges lasers more densely in the center of its FoV, further enhancing perception and blind spot reduction.
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