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By Stephen Nellis
Aug 1 (Reuters) – Aeva Technologies Inc said on Monday it had reached an agreement with a German company to sell its sensors for commercial purposes, such as automating production lines with autonomous mining machines and trucks.
Silicon Valley-based Aeva makes lidar sensors, which can allow self-driving cars and other devices to get a three-dimensional view of the world around them. pedestrians and other cars.
While Aeva is targeting autonomous car markets, it also began promoting its sensors among manufacturers. The company said Sick AG, a German company that helps factories automate production machines and sensors, agreed to use Aeva sensors for commercial markets.
The deal follows an earlier agreement Aeva has reached with Nikon Corp to use Aeva sensors in factories. While Nikon uses Aeva sensors to scan items made indoors a few meters away for microscopic defects, Sick plans to use the sensors to scan tens or loads of meters. in programs such as mining cars or logistics cranes that load boxes in ports, among dozens of possible uses.
“The industry is fragmented,” Aeva chief executive Soroush Salehian told Reuters in an interview. “In fact, they are for us a reliable and qualified distribution partner, so we don’t have to make deals with thousands of companies, it becomes very difficult to try. “
In addition to selling sensors to Sick, Aeva will provide Sick with software to modify sensors for uses. Salehian said the deal included software licensing gains in addition to hardware sales, but declined to comment further on the length of the deal.
Aeva said it will start supplying its Aeries II sensors to Sick this year, with full production, the deal starting in 2024. (Stephen Nellis reports from San Francisco; Editing via Leslie Adler)