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Nov 20, 2024     Yahoo! Finance
Lumotive Unveils MD41 Development Kit: Elevating 3D Sensing with Enhanced Flexibility and Efficiency

Nov 19, 2024     Global Semiconductor Alliance
The 2024 GSA Award Nominees Revealed

Sept 30, 2024     Communicated Components Magazine
Newest Breakthrough in AGV/AMR 3D Sensing: Lumotive LCM Sets New Standard (Chinese)

Sept 19, 2024    Maeil Business Newspaper
Namuga Forms Alliance with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sensor Company

Sept 18, 2024    Robotics Tomorrow
Lumotive Unveils Groundbreaking Open Development Platform (ODP): Moves to Democratize the Future of 3D Sensing

Sept 17, 2024    Electronics Specifier
Cron AI and Lumotive unveil AI-powered solid-state LiDAR

Sept 13, 2024     EE News Europe
Open Development Platform for 3D Metasurface Sensor

Aug 4, 2024     Laser Focus World
2024 Innovators Awards: Meet the honorees

May 29, 2024     Electronics360
3D lidar sensor with true solid-state beam steering

May 28, 2024     All About Circuits
Solid-State Beam Steering Comes to 3D LiDAR

May 2, 2024     Electronics 360
Production begins on first optical beamforming chip

May 1, 2024     Metro Vancouver
Invest Vancouver Welcomes US High-Tech 3D Sensor Company

Apr 24, 2024     Robotics 24/7
Lumotive, EDOM partner to market optical computer chips in Taiwan

Apr 17, 2024     EE Times Asia
Lumotive Taps EDOM to Accelerate Solid-State Lidar Adoption in Taiwan

Jan 15, 2024     EE Times
Can Metamaterials Revolutionize Optical Computing?

Jan 12, 2024     Photonics Spectra
Photonics Tech Shines at CES 2024

Jan 11, 2024     GoPhotonics
Lumotive’s Digital Beam Steering Takes Center Stage at CES 2024

Jan 5, 2024     GeekWire
CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

Nov 28, 2023     Fast Company
Lumotive named as one of Fast Company’s Next Big Things In Tech 2023

Nov 16, 2023     Consumer Technology Association
Lumotive LM10 Chip is a CES Innovation Awards 2024 Honoree

June 1, 2023     Robotics 24/7
Lumotive and Hokuyo Partner to Build 3D Lidar Sensing Into Industrial Automation

Apr 12, 2023     Wall Street Journal
Lighter, Cheaper, Faster—MetaVC Looks for Metamaterials Startups

Apr 13, 2023     EE News, Europe
$62m fund for metamaterial startups

Jan 07, 2023     Imaging and Machine Vision Europe
New lidar solutions presented at CES 2023

Jan 04, 2023    Puget Sound Business Journal
Lidar company Lumotive raises $13M in round led by Samsung

Jan 03, 2023    Geekwire
CES 2023: A list of Washington state companies showing off
their latest tech gadgets and services

Aug 30, 2022    ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International
Lumotive Secures Funding for LCM Beam Steering Chips

Jun 18, 2022    EE Times Weekend Edition
Sam Heidari: ‘Focus on the Journey, Not Just the Destination’

Jun 01, 2022    Unscrewed Systems Technology Magazine
 
Feb 15, 2022    Driving Vision News
 
Jan 31, 2022    Forbes

Press Release

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Lumotive Enhances Leadership Team, Expands its Headquarters at a Larger Facility

Lumotive Enhances Leadership Team, Expands its Headquarters at a Larger Facility

Redmond, WA – May 6, 2022 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, all-semiconductor lidar technologies, today announced that it has added two technology industry veterans to its leadership team. Renowned engineering leader Kevin Camera, Ph.D. is Lumotive’s newly appointed Head of Software and Embedded Systems, and technology business leader Rakinder Grover joins the company as Vice President of Strategy and […]
Lumotive and ZKW Group Jointly Demonstrate Vehicle Headlight with Integrated Functional Lidar at CES 2022

Lumotive and ZKW Group Jointly Demonstrate Vehicle Headlight with Integrated Functional Lidar at CES 2022

LAS VEGAS (CES) – January 6, 2022 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems, and the ZKW Group, a specialist for innovative premium lighting systems and electronics, today unveiled a functional demonstration of Lumotive’s lidar technology integrated with a ZKW vehicle headlight. Conducted at the Lumotive booth #6776 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the demonstration couples Lumotive’s award-winning […]
Lumotive Introduces Open Lidar API to Accelerate Market Adoption of Software-Defined, Solid-State Lidar 2.0 Solutions

Lumotive Introduces Open Lidar API to Accelerate Market Adoption of Software-Defined, Solid-State Lidar 2.0 Solutions

LAS VEGAS (CES) – January 5, 2022 –, Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems and the award-winning Meta-Lidar™ Platform, today introduced the Open Lidar API (application programming interface) to lead the industry towards scalable, ubiquitous, and lower cost 3D sensing based on Lidar 2.0 technology. Considered by industry experts and observers to be the […]
Consumer Technology Association Recognizes Lumotive with Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards

Consumer Technology Association Recognizes Lumotive with Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards

SEATTLE, WA – November 15, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, today announced that it has been named a CES® 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree in both the “Robotics” and “Vehicle Intelligence & Transportation” award categories for its innovative Meta-Lidar™ Platform. This year’s CES Innovation Awards program received a […]
Lumotive Names Dr. Sam Heidari as CEO to Lead Lidar Innovator’s Next Stage of Growth

Lumotive Names Dr. Sam Heidari as CEO to Lead Lidar Innovator’s Next Stage of Growth

SEATTLE, WA – October 20, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the appointment of Dr. Sam Heidari to the position of CEO. Heidari brings extensive executive operational and director-level experience in the semiconductor industry to the highly regarded start-up. Lumotive has pioneered a next-generation […]
Lumotive Wins “Best of Sensors 2021 – Startup of the Year” Award

Lumotive Wins “Best of Sensors 2021 – Startup of the Year” Award

SEATTLE, WA – September 29, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, has been recognized by media and information services providers Questex and Fierce Electronics with the “Best of Sensors 2021 - Startup of the Year” award presented at the recent Sensors Converge event held in San Jose, California. For more than two decades, the Best […]

Lumotive Reveals Meta-Lidar™ Platform at Sensors Converge Event

SAN JOSE, CA (SENSORS CONVERGE) – September 22, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, is demonstrating its recently unveiled Meta-Lidar™ Platform at Booth 536 at the Sensors Converge conference and expo at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center from September 21-23, 2021. Lumotive is a finalist for […]

Lumotive Unveils Meta-Lidar™ Platform — Industry’s Smallest, Solid-State, All Silicon, Scalable 3D Sensing Solution

MUNICH (IAA MOBILITY) – September 6, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems, today introduced the Meta-Lidar™ Platform — the industry’s smallest and most cost-effective 3D sensing solution comprising a Lumotive tiny lidar device with patented beam steering technology, software-defined scan modes, and a reference system design. Powered by Lumotive’s highly scalable Light Control Metasurface™ silicon […]

Lumotive Named One of JMP Securities’ “Efficient Fifty” Companies For Second Consecutive Year

Seattle, WA – February 23, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems for smartphones, industrial automation, robotics and automotive applications, today announced its inclusion for the second consecutive year in JMP Securities’ Efficient Fifty list of “the most interesting private companies in industrial and energy technology.” “Our team analyzed several hundred companies in the process of […]

Lumotive’s “Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program” Accelerates Adoption of Tiny LiDAR in Smartphones and Other Devices

Seattle, WA – February 8, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems, today began accepting applications for its “Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program” (EAP) from qualified partners deploying extremely small form-factor LiDAR in smartphones, augmented reality (AR) products, industrial automation systems and near-range automotive solutions, such as for blind-spot detection and in-cabin driver monitoring systems. […]

Lumotive Earns Spot on Built In’s “Best Small Companies to Work For in Seattle” List for 2021

Seattle, WA // January 13, 2021 — Built In today announced that the company honored Lumotive with inclusion in the 2021 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, Lumotive earned a place on the “Best Small Companies to Work For in Seattle” list. The annual awards include companies of all sizes, from startups to the enterprise, nationally and in the […]

Lumotive, Yole Développement and LiDAR News to Host “LiDAR: One Size Does Not Fit All” Webinar, January 21, 2021

Seattle, WA – January 7, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems, and market research company Yole Développement today announced the “LiDAR: One Size Does Not Fit All” webinar to be hosted and moderated by leading industry publication LiDAR News on January 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM, Eastern time. Ideal for developers of smartphones and industrial or automotive products […]
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