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Media Coverage

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 Introduces Exclusive Early Access Program to Support Select Partners and Accelerate Adoption of Innovative LiDAR Technology

Seattle, WA – August 4, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable solid-state LiDAR systems, today announced its “Early Access Program” (EAP) designed to assist select customers build unique, market-specific features into their LiDAR-enabled products and bring them to market faster. Open to a small number of qualified partners, the EAP program provides engineering support and early access to […]

Lumotive Unveils Industry-First LiDAR Products Leveraging Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ and CMOS Manufacturing to Address Performance, Cost and Form-Factor Needs Across Multiple Markets

Seattle, WA – May 19, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable solid-state LiDAR systems, today announced the first two in a series of 3D-sensing products that utilize its innovative Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ (LCMs) manufactured in CMOS semiconductor processes to meet performance, cost and size requirements across a range of industries. With samples available in the […]

Lumotive Named One of JMP Securities’ “Efficient Fifty” Leading Private Companies in Industrial and Energy Technology

Seattle, WA – March 3, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state LiDAR systems for consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics and autonomous vehicles, today announced its inclusion in JMP Securities’ recently released Efficient Fifty list of “the most interesting private companies in industrial and energy technology.” Lumotive received seed funding from Bill Gates and Quan Funds. “Our team analyzed […]

Lumotive’s Revolutionary Beam Steering Technology for Lidar Systems Recognized by Laser Focus World as “Top 20 Photonics Technology”

Seattle, WA – February 25, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state LiDAR systems for consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics and autonomous vehicles, today announced selection of its revolutionary beam steering technology based on patented Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ as one of Laser Focus World’s “Top 20 Photonics Technologies for 2019”. Published monthly since 1965 […]

Lumotive Named One of Built In Seattle’s Prestigious “Best Small Companies to Work For in 2020”

Seattle, WA – February 24, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of 3D-sensing systems for consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics and autonomous vehicles, today announced its selection as one of Built In Seattle’s “Best Small Companies to Work For in 2020.” The list includes the highest rated companies with less than 100 employees based on compensation […]

Lumotive and Himax Technologies Target Autonomous Vehicles with Industry-First Liquid Crystal on Silicon Solution for High-Performance LiDAR Systems

SEATTLE and TAINAN, Taiwan, Sept. 03, 2019 -- Lumotive, the Bill Gates-funded startup developing LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, and Himax Display, Inc., a subsidiary of Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIMX), today announced a first-of-its-kind, jointly-developed solution to enable disruptive beam steering technology in LiDAR systems that marries Himax’s proven Liquid-Crystal-On-Silicon (LCOS) technology with Lumotive’s patented […]

TowerJazz and Lumotive Demonstrate True Solid-State Beam Steering for Automotive LiDAR Systems

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, and Seattle, WA, June 26, 2019 – TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and Lumotive, the Bill Gates-funded startup developing LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, today announced the successful demonstration of the first beam steering ICs for automotive LiDAR systems that are fully solid-state (without any moving parts). Based on Lumotive’s unique liquid crystal metasurface (LCM) […]
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