Facts

• Segment: Perception
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2013
• Website: https://www.aeye.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

AEye Inc develops adaptive lidar systems for automotive, industrial and mobility applications. Its sensing technology is designed to prioritize relevant objects and long-range detection, supporting perception stacks for advanced driver assistance, autonomous vehicles and robotics-adjacent machine-vision systems.

Market context

AEye is relevant as a perception supplier, providing lidar hardware and software for autonomy stacks rather than finished robot platforms. AEye supplies software-defined lidar and perception technology for autonomous systems and robotics-adjacent applications.

Products

• Apollo 4Sight Flex LiDAR

Facts

• Website: https://www.aeye.ai/
• HQ: Pleasanton, United States
• Founded: 2013
• Ticker: LIDR / NASDAQ
• Segment: Perception

Long-range LiDAR perception supplier

AEye develops software-defined long-range LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, ADAS and physical AI perception applications.

• Target environment: Autonomous vehicles, highway driving, ADAS platforms, intelligent mobility systems and physical AI perception stacks.
• Deployment model: LiDAR component and perception-system supply through Apollo and automotive partner integrations.
• Customer context: Automotive OEMs, autonomy developers, mobility platforms, sensor integrators and physical AI system builders.
• Workflow context: Long-range object detection, high-speed perception, free-space awareness, sensor fusion and autonomous driving support.
• Commercial maturity: Public LiDAR company commercializing Apollo through automotive and compute-platform integrations.
• Market position: Perception component supplier focused on long-range software-defined LiDAR.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on automotive design wins, cost, behind-windshield integration, software stack support, reliability and competition from radar or camera systems.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes LiDAR suppliers, ADAS sensors, autonomous driving perception and NVIDIA-linked physical AI systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-01-06 - Partnership - AEye to showcase Apollo lidar integrated with NVIDIA AGX DRIVE Thor at CES 2026 - AEye said Apollo was integrated with NVIDIA AGX DRIVE Thor for demonstration at CES 2026.
• 2025-05-07 - Production Milestone - AEye and LITEON confirm production of first Apollo units from new manufacturing line - AEye and LITEON said the first Apollo lidar units were produced from the new manufacturing line.
• 2020-10-29 - Partnership - Continental invests in AEye and partners to develop long-range lidar for automated driving - Continental announced a minority investment in AEye alongside a development partnership focused on…

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-05-07 - Production Milestone - AEye and LITEON confirm production of first Apollo units from new manufacturing line - AEye and LITEON said the first Apollo lidar units were produced from the new manufacturing line.

Team

• Matt Fisch - CEO and Chairman - Current operating leader for AEye's LiDAR platform as it targets automotive, industrial and robotics-adjacent perception markets.
• Conor Tierney - CFO
• Andrew Hughes - General Counsel

Relationships

• NVIDIA - partner - AEye to showcase Apollo lidar integrated with NVIDIA AGX DRIVE Thor at CES 2026
• NVIDIA - technology_partner - AEye showcased its Apollo lidar integrated with NVIDIA AGX platform for autonomous vehicle perception.

Context tags

• LiDAR sensor supplier - Stack Layer - AEye supplies LiDAR sensor and perception systems.
• Automotive LiDAR supplier - Peer Group - AEye supplies automotive-grade LiDAR for ADAS and autonomous driving.
• Automotive perception - Workflow - AEye LiDAR supports automotive perception for ADAS and AV.
• Point-cloud perception - Capability - AEye provides point-cloud perception for 3D environment understanding.
• LiDAR perception software - Peer Group - AEye provides LiDAR perception software for object detection and classification.
• Multimodal sensor fusion - Capability - AEye supports multi-modal sensor fusion.
• Autonomous vehicle perception supply chain - Customer Environment - AEye serves the autonomous vehicle perception supply chain.
• Robotics LiDAR supplier - Peer Group - AEye LiDAR has robotics and automation applications.

Customers and deployments

• First Units Produced - first Apollo units from new manufacturing line - 2025-05-07 - LiDAR manufacturing - AEye and LITEON confirmed production of first Apollo units from a new manufacturing line. - source posture: Comp…