Atlas Ultra 4D LiDAR

Facts

• Company: Aeva Technologies
• Product type: Component
• Status: Commercial
• Capability focus: Fmcw 4d LIDAR Sensing
• Website: https://www.aeva.com/atlas-ultra/

Market context

Atlas Ultra is Aeva's FMCW 4D LiDAR sensor for long-range autonomy programs that need range, velocity, and interference-resilient perception in one sensing layer.

• Target environment: Automated-driving programs, high-speed autonomy platforms, automotive validation fleets, and advanced mobile-machine perception stacks.
• Workflow context: Long-range object detection, velocity-aware perception, sensor fusion, safety envelope monitoring, and autonomy validation for systems operating at vehicle speeds.
• Customer context: Automotive OEMs, autonomous-vehicle developers, Tier 1 perception integrators, and robotics teams building high-speed outdoor autonomy stacks.
• Deployment model: Component integration into autonomy sensor suites, typically as part of a broader camera, radar, LiDAR, compute, and perception-software architecture.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial LiDAR product positioned for automotive and autonomy programs that need long-range velocity-aware perception.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on platform qualification, cost, sensor-fusion integration, automotive validation cycles, and proving performance advantages against incumbent LiDAR and radar con…
• Market position: Long-range FMCW LiDAR product in the perception layer for robotics, automated mobility, and high-speed autonomy.
• Adjacent products: Phoenix Perception Radar, JT16 Mini 3D LiDAR, MTi-680G GNSS/INS

Audience

Auto OEMs

Workflow

Long-range object detection, velocity-aware perception, sensor fusion, safety envelope monitoring, and autonomy validation for systems operating at vehicle speeds.

Capability

FMCW 4D lidar sensing

Deployment environment

Automated-driving programs, high-speed autonomy platforms, automotive validation fleets, and advanced mobile-machine perception stacks.

Specifications

• Range To 10 Percent: 250 m
• Field Of View Hv: 120 degrees horizontal x 25 degrees vertical
• Operating Temperature: -40 C to 85 C
• Velocity Detection: Per-point Doppler velocity
• Safety: Automotive-grade ISO 26262 ASIL-B (D) functional-safety positioning

Tags

• Peer Group: Lidar Sensor, Perception Sensor, Lidar Systems
• Workflow: Robot Perception, Mobile Robot Navigation
• Capability: Lidar Mapping
• Stack Layer: Sensing layer

Timeline / Research

• 2025-01-07 - Product Launch - Aeva launches Atlas Ultra 4D LiDAR for industrial automation and autonomy - Aeva introduced Atlas Ultra as a smaller, longer-range 4D LiDAR sensor for industrial automation, robotics and tr…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Atlas C Sample Delivery Status - Atlas C-sample sensors delivered to Daimler Truck - 2026-01-20 - Daimler Truck / Torc Robotics - autonomous truck sensing - Aeva delivered Atlas C-sample sensors to Daimler Truck for its…
• Aeva Powered Apdis Commercial Deployment - Nikon APDIS MV5X commercial deployment - 2026-01-20 - Nikon - industrial metrology / laser radar - Nikon began commercial deployment of its APDIS MV5X laser radar system powere…
• Series Production LIDAR Supplier Status - selected for series-production autonomous trucks - 2026-01-20 - Daimler Truck / Torc Robotics - autonomous truck sensing - Daimler Truck selected Aeva lidar for its series-produ…

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