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Voyant Photonics has released new versions of its Carbon lidar platform, adding 32-line and 64-line variants designed for compact, cost-sensitive and compute-limited systems.
The new models, which will be displayed at CES 2026 (booth 4875, Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall), complement existing 128-line configurations and are optimized for industrial autonomy, robotics, drones and smart infrastructure applications.
Building on the same semiconductor foundation as Voyant’s flagship Carbon platform, the new versions offer lower data rates and simplified integration while maintaining core FMCW advantages including velocity measurement, interference immunity and high dynamic range.
“With these additions, we’re extending our FMCW lidar to applications where cost and compute budgets are essential and where historically the only available options were over-engineered sensors built for automotive and not designed with industrial needs in mind,” said Clément Kong, vice president of sales at Voyant Photonics. “Carbon 32 and Carbon 64 make it possible for developers to embed true 4D perception in the smallest and most constrained devices, accelerating the shift from autonomous vehicles to autonomous everything.”
Platform capabilities
The Carbon family uses Voyant’s proprietary silicon-photonics architecture that integrates beam steering and coherent detection on a single photonic chip, enabling mass-production economics, reduced calibration drift and unit-to-unit consistency.
The new variants include high-precision depth sensing and real-time velocity measurement, exceptional ambient light immunity and compact design for industrial and mobile environments.
With line resolutions spanning 32, 64 and 128, original equipment manufacturers and system integrators can tailor performance, bandwidth and compute load to specific use cases, from robotics and automated guided vehicles to drones and embedded edge platforms.
According to the company, Voyant’s commercialization strategy focuses on transforming lidar from a niche automotive sensor into a core component of machine perception across industries. Its chip-scale FMCW technology delivers both motion and depth per pixel, enabling spatial reasoning capabilities for industrial automation, robotics, smart infrastructure, logistics and defense.
By partnering with semiconductor foundries and leveraging the global photonics supply chain, Voyant aims to achieve scalability and cost efficiency, opening markets previously closed to traditional time-of-flight lidar solutions.
“We’re entering a new era of physical AI, where devices and machines interpret and interact with the world around them,” said Clément Nouvel, CEO of Voyant Photonics. “Voyant’s vision is to make high-performance 4D sensing as ubiquitous and affordable as any other embedded component, bringing real-world autonomy to every sector.”
