Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin

Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take up a considerable amount of space. Not so with Voyant Photonics, which has created a lidar system that you really could conceivably balance on the head of a pin.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/voyant-photonics-raises-4-3m-to-fit-lidar-on-the-head-of-a-pin/