INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Lidar technology developer AEye will scale its operations globally through manufacturing partnerships after raising a $40 million Series B
funding so far to about $61 million
manufacturing, logistics and tech resources in Asia
AEye as the foremost innovator in this space, whose systems deliver highly precise, actionable information at speeds and distances never
seen in commercially available lidar sensors
to detect and track a moving object
Lidar has many applications, but a lot of attention is being paid to how it is used by autonomous vehicles and drones).In tests monitored
and validated by VSI Labs, a research company that focuses on autonomous-vehicle technology, AEye said that its iDAR sensor, which was
launched earlier this year and combines a solid-state lidar and high-resolution camera in one device, was able to detect and track a moving
truck from one kilometer away
AEye claims that this is four to five times the distance other current lidar systems can detect and is possible because iDAR is better able
to mimic the way human brains process visual information
In a press statement, AEye chief of staff Blair LaCorte said the company believes iDAR can potentially track moving objects, including
trucks and drones, from five kilometers to 10 kilometers away.
