MIT Spinoff Building New Solid-State Lidar-on-a-Chip System

Recommendable! Comprehensive overview article on Lidar!

What is the challenge?

"The fully autonomous vehicles application space highlights the performance and development challenges facing the lidar industry. These requirements include
cost on the order of US $100 per unit,
ranging greater than 200 meters at 10 percent object reflectivity,
a minimum field of view (FOV) of 120° horizontal by 20° vertical, 0.1° angular resolution,
at least 10 frames per second with approximately 100,000 pixels per frame, and
scalable manufacturing (millions of units per year). ...
However, before lidar can be widely used by autonomous vehicles and robots, lidar units need to be manufacturable at large volumes, have high performance, and cost two orders of magnitude less than current commercial systems, which cost several thousands of dollars apiece. ..."

MIT Spinoff Building New Solid-State Lidar-on-a-Chip System - IEEE Spectrum Our team at Kyber Photonics is developing a lidar chip to enable the next generation of autonomous robots and vehicles