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Ouster has launched its Rev8 OS digital LiDAR sensor family, built on the company’s L4 Ouster Silicon and aimed at autonomy, robotics, smart infrastructure and industrial sensing applications. The range introduces native color LiDAR, designed to combine 3D depth data and color information directly at the sensor level.

For eeNews Europe readers, the announcement is relevant because it points to a continuing shift in LiDAR architectures, where perception hardware is expected to support richer AI datasets while meeting automotive and industrial safety requirements.

Native color LiDAR for perception systems

Ouster says Rev8 is the first LiDAR family to provide patented native color sensing, with every point captured with color rather than relying on post-processing or camera-LiDAR calibration. The company says this could help systems interpret objects such as road signs and brake lights, while also supporting colorized 3D mapping.

The L4 architecture integrates Fujifilm color science and provides up to 10.4 million points per second, 22.4Gbit/s of off-chip data bandwidth and a 40kHz measurement rate. Ouster also claims 48bit color depth and 116dB dynamic range, with operation across lighting conditions from 1 lux to 2 million lux.

“Rev8 is the most advanced family of LiDAR sensors ever released and sets a new standard in sensing,” said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. “With the L4 Ouster Silicon, we are delivering on the promise of our digital architecture to deliver exponential improvements in performance, doubling our core specs and simultaneously introducing the world’s first native color LiDAR to give machines 3D human-like sight for the next era of Physical AI. Rev8 is the foundational technology that will allow customers to move from prototype to commercial production at scale, providing the reliability and affordability required to enable real-world autonomy across industries.”

OS1 Max extends range and resolution

The Rev8 OS family includes reworked OS0, OS1 and OSDome sensors, alongside the 256-channel OS1 Max. Ouster says the OS1 Max offers up to 200m range at 10% reflectivity, a maximum detection range of 500m and a 45° field of view.

The sensors are described as auto-grade and cybersecure to ISO 21434, while being designed for ASIL-B to ISO 26262, SIL-2 to IEC 61508 and PLd to ISO 13849 functional safety certifications. Ouster also points to a planned 10-year production life, which may matter for industrial and automotive programmes that need stable sensing platforms over long deployment cycles.

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