Lumotive Debuts 180° Solid-State LiDAR Reference Platform With 30 fps for Outdoor Autonomy

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Lumotive has introduced a new solid-state LiDAR reference platform built on its commercially available LM10 Light Control Metasurface (LCM) and Adaps Photonics’ ADS6311 “Hawk” direct time-of-flight sensor, delivering 180° horizontal field of view at 30 frames per second. By enabling electronic beam steering at semiconductor speed, Lumotive positions its LCM as a core enabler for next-generation outdoor robotics, safety systems, and smart infrastructure that demand wide coverage, high frame rates, and reduced sensor counts.

For system designers, the platform replaces mechanical scanning with fully solid-state, software-controlled optics, cutting integration complexity and total cost of ownership while targeting safety-critical use cases that cannot tolerate blind spots. The system provides up to 140° programmable vertical field of view, allowing different ranges, frame rates, and resolutions to be allocated to specific regions of interest, which supports edge AI and “detect-what-matters” sensing strategies.

The architecture doubles the typical 15 fps performance of many existing dTOF solutions while extending reliable sensing to roughly 50 meters in adverse conditions such as rain, dust, and low visibility. Lumotive also highlights improved point cloud quality through mitigation of multipath artifacts, blooming, and sensor interference, which is critical for robust perception in autonomous platforms and infrastructure monitoring.

Lumotive executives describe the achievement as a step-change in 3D sensing, combining ultra-wide coverage, higher frame rates, and enhanced range in a single, scalable optical semiconductor platform. The company underscores that its LCM effectively turns optics into a programmable layer, shifting performance differentiation from fixed hardware constraints to software-defined control, and aligning with broader semiconductor industry trends.

The LCM-based reference design is immediately available to LiDAR developers and module manufacturers, giving OEMs a path to faster time-to-market for high-performance, cost-efficient sensors. Ecosystem partners are already building on the technology; for example, Namuga has demonstrated a Stella-180 prototype based on Lumotive’s programmable optics, with sample availability to OEMs expected later this year.

For Lumotive, this milestone reinforces its strategy to commercialize programmable optical semiconductors as a horizontal platform across sensing, switching, and communications. With more than 160 patents and growing partner adoption, the company is positioning its LCM as a foundational component for autonomous systems, with potential revenue leverage from sensor makers, robotics OEMs, and infrastructure providers standardizing on its software-defined beam-steering technology.