Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004906
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 the roof, or in the grille, enabling automotive OEMs to implement safety features with minimal impact on vehicle design. Apollo is industrialized, manufactured, tested, and validated by our Tier 1 partners keeping in mind supply chain resiliency goals. 

We believe the unique combination of features of 4Sight™ include:

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      Active lidar enables user’s choice of deterministic scan patterns catered to specific use cases and applications, such as highway autopilot; 

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      Feature-specific ROIs designed to detect objects from various locations; 

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      Lidar perception made available through a software partner; 

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      Windshield, grille, and other discreet vehicle integration options that are optimized by software configurability; 

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      Size, Weight, and Power (“SWaP”) optimized; and 

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      Designed with Functional Safety (“FuSa” or ISO26262) requirements in mind - providing necessary determinism for testing and validation for wide variety of edge cases. 

4SightTM for Non-Automotive

Built on our unique 4Sight™ Intelligent Sensing Platform, 4Sight™ meets the diverse array of performance and functional requirements for the Non-Automotive market with our industry-leading lidar performance, integrated intelligence, advanced vision capabilities, and unmatched reliability and safety. Once we achieve economies of scale in the Automotive market, we anticipate that 4Sight™ will be a cost-effective, customizable perception solution in Non-Automotive markets that may leverage the complete 4Sight™ software platform and will include a comprehensive software development kit for an extensible roadmap to autonomous functionality. 

Flexible sensor location within the car

Our 4Sight™ Flex next-generation design allows for unique flexibility with respect to sensor placement. The unit’s performance level, power requirements, and small form factor makes it easier for OEM designers to integrate our sensors into a variety of locations in a vehicle, such as behind the windshield, on the roof, or in the grille. Competing solutions, on the other hand, may need to be integrated into the roof of the car in order to resolve challenges with excess heat or size. As a result, OEMs that install competing products may need to substantially alter the physical appearance of their vehicles to accommodate those products.

Competition

Lidar-based perception solutions for autonomous applications is an emerging market with a wide variety of possible applications across many different markets. We face competition from numerous companies worldwide that are developing lid