Luminar’s $5 billion market capitalization is by far the largest of the half-dozen lidar start-ups competing for business among both automotive manufacturers and autonomous vehicle technology ...

Dubbed “Hydra,” Luminar showed off the new system at CES in Las Vegas this week, combining its lidar sensor, software that’s updated over the air and a computer system using NVIDIA’s ...

Luminar, the lidar company, conducted its first live demo in New York City. The company, which has partnerships with Volvo, Audi, and (maybe?) Tesla, is out to prove its low-cost sensors can be ...

Luminar’s lidar systems, like all others, fire out a beam of light and essentially time its return. That means you need a photosensitive surface that can discern just a handful of photons.

Luminar now has about 100 hand-assembled lidar sensors being tested by four major car companies, which it would not name. By year’s end, its 50,000-square-foot factory in Orlando will have ...

Luminar cut about 30% of its workforce in 2024 via two rounds of layoffs. Some of those layoffs spilled into the first quarter of 2025. A total of 212 employees were laid off.

Palo Alto–based Luminar calls its new, third-generation lidar Iris. The unit is about the size of a soda can and weighs just under 2 pounds, small enough to fit into a car’s bumper.