RoboSense LiDAR Announced as a Finalist in Transportation &Logistics Category in the 2020 Edison Awards

[New York, United States] – [February 12, 2020] – RoboSense’s automotive MEMS LiDAR “RS-LiDAR-M1” has been named a finalist in transportation &Logistics category for the 2020 Edison Awards. The Edison Awards, named after Thomas Alva Edison, recognizes and honors the world’s best innovations and innovators.

The Edison Awards is one of the world's prestigious awards that symbolize the persistence and excellence in innovation and honors the most innovative products and business leaders in the world. It is Established in 1987 and named after inventor Thomas Alva Edison and sometimes referred to as “The Oscars of Innovation”. All the winners were chosen as the "best of the best" by the globe review panel consist of 3,000 senior business executives and academics.

The RoboSense “RS-LiDAR-M1” is the world’s first and smallest MEMS Smart LiDAR Sensor to incorporate sensor hardware, AI perception algorithms, and IC chipsets, transforming conventional LiDAR sensors from an information collector to a complete data analysis and comprehension system, providing essential information for autonomous vehicle decision-making faster than ever before. The RS-LiDAR-M1 meets every automotive-grade requirement, including intelligence, low cost, stability, simplified structure and small size, vehicle body design friendliness, and algorithm processed semantic-level perception output results.

As the game-changing product in the autonomous driving field, the RS-LiDAR-M1 hard-ware only version is currently available for customers, with a retail price of $1898. The smart sensor version is currently available for key customers who have purchased the solid-state LiDAR A-C Sample Kit. At CES 2020, the RoboSense RS-LiDAR-M1 also demonstrated that it is the world’s first and only Smart LiDAR capable of real road tests on open roads.

RS-LiDAR-M1 Road Test on CES2020

“Winning of the 2020 Edison Award is a recognition of RoboSense’s innovation technology towards the future mobility and its benefits for the human driving safety”, Dr. Leilei Shinohara, RoboSense Co-partner and Vice President said, “with the achievement of the IATF 16949 Certification, RoboSense is qualified to supply to automotive customers. We are confident that the RS-LiDAR-M1 is the best choice for the mass production of autonomous driving. We continuously focus on the validation and verification of performance and quality of RS-LiDAR-M1 as an automotive-grade product”.