Luminar Technologies

Luminar Technologies is an autonomous vehicle sensor and software company developing LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles. The company's combination of sensor and software has been developed to meet the performance, safety, and economic standards and requirements of the automotive industry. This has led to partnerships for production autonomous consumer vehicles with Volvo Cars and other partnerships with Daimler Truck AG, Tesla, and Intel's Mobileye.

With Luminar's inclusion of the Iris series in OEM partner's production consumer vehicles in late 2022, the company also debuted their Blade concept. This was debuted in June 2021, alongside the demonstration of the capabilities of the Iris module, and presented the companies vision for the use of lidar for autonomous production vehicles. This included the company's vision for the use of autonomous technology for long-range trucking, where a lidar system could allow a human operator a chance to sleep. And for use in robo-taxis, where the company suggests the use of lidar and the company's software could make taxis completely autonomous and driverless, capable of recognizing passengers versus pedestrians. The Blade design further works as a concept to design vehicles with the company's lidar systems built into the vehicle's architecture, which can be incorporated into vehicle development programs. The concept was developed in a collaboration between Luminar and NewDealDesignNewDealDesign.