Voyant Photonics has announced new versions of its Carbon LiDAR platform, adding 32-line and 64-line variants designed to bring the power of FMCW sensing to even more compact, cost-sensitive, and compute-limited systems.
The new models, which will be on display at the upcoming CES 2026 event (LVCC West Hall in Booth #4875), complement the existing 128-line configurations, enabling broader choices and customisations from the Voyant portfolio of low-cost, high-performance sensors, and optimised for industrial autonomy, robotics, drones, and smart infrastructure applications.
Building on the same efficient semiconductor foundation as Voyant’s flagship Carbon platform, the new versions offer lower data rates and simplified integration without sacrificing core FMCW advantages such as 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 of 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.”
The carbon platform: built for the real world
The Carbon family represents Voyant’s most versatile and scalable LiDAR product line, designed using Voyant proprietary silicon-photonics architecture that integrates beam steering and coherent detection on a single photonic chip. This integrated technology will unlock mass-production economics, reduce calibration drift, and provide unmatched consistency from unit to unit.
The new carbon variants extend the core carbon platform’s advantages:
- High-precision depth sensing and real-time velocity
- Exceptional ambient light immunity, ensuring reliability from dim warehouses to direct sunlight
- Compact design for demanding industrial and mobile environments
With line resolutions now spanning 32, 64, and 128, OEMs and system integrators can tailor performance, bandwidth, and compute load to their specific use cases – from agile robotics and compact AGVs to drones and embedded edge platforms.
Voyant’s broader vision: scaling LiDAR to autonomous everything
Voyant’s commercialisation 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 essential to emerging applications in industrial automation, robotics, smart infrastructure, logistics, and defence.
By partnering with mature semiconductor foundries and leveraging major players from the fast-developing global photonics supply chain, Voyant is laying the foundation of unprecedented scalability and cost efficiency, opening new 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.”
