The leading maker of laser sensors for self-driving and semi-automated vehicles said it removed an image that looked identical to a lidar chip designed by startup Lidwave.
that is its core technology. The Jerusalem-based company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Luminar on March 14 asking it to remove the image. It also notified the Securities and Exchange Commission of Luminar’s “misuse of its product image to falsely promote its abilities and securities to investors.”
Lidwave said it hadn’t received a response from the company as of 3 pm New York time on Friday. The SEC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. An image of an integrated photonic chip, lower right, that appears in a recent Luminar investor presentation appears to be identical to a chip created by smaller rival Lidwave.“Integrated photonics allows lidar to become as scalable and profitable as anybody has imagined … But surprisingly, the picture Luminar presented of a photonic integrated circuit as their solution is not their solution, but basically the exact image of our lidar,” Lidwave CEO Yehuda Vidal told.
Over the past five years, Orlando-based Luminar, created by optics prodigy alum Austin Russell moved from being one of dozens of lidar startups vying to challenge Velodyne, the first company to commercialize the technology for autonomous vehicles, to the de facto industry leader, in terms of the number of vehicles that will be using its sensors. Russell
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