Ouster Launches Rev8 Lidar with Native Color Sensing

Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST) (“Ouster” or the “Company”), a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced its new family of OS digital lidar sensors, Rev8, powered by its next-generation L4 Ouster Silicon. Ouster Rev8 features the world’s first patented native-colour lidar sensors, provides up to twice the range and resolution of the previous generation, and is designed for functional safety, reliability, affordability, and scale.

L4 Ouster Silicon:

Ouster’s breakthrough L4 architecture doubles the range and resolution of its lidar over the prior generation, adds native-color sensing, and is designed for functional safety. Based on patented Ouster Silicon with embedded Fujifilm colour science, the L4 chip delivers exquisite colour data and hardware-enabled HDR. It boasts 42.9 GMACs of processing power, detection of up to 20 trillion photons per second and a 40 kHz measurement rate with picosecond timing precision, and is capable of processing up to 10.4 million points per second and 22.4 gigabits per second of data bandwidth off-chip. The L4 architecture features both the 128-channel L4 and 256-channel L4 Max.

Native Color:

Rev8 represents a paradigm shift in AI perception with the world’s first native color lidar sensors. To perceive the world in full context requires a combination of structure and color, and Rev8 is the first sensor to unify both. For the first time, a single lidar sensor can understand road signs, interpret brake lights, or simply capture the richness of planet earth in survey-grade, colorized maps.

With megapixel resolution and stunning image quality, Rev8 native color sensors fuse data through physics rather than software. Every point is "born" with color, ensuring ultra-low latency and perfect spatial-temporal alignment. This single-sensor solution eliminates the need for complex calibration, providing a seamless understanding of 3D environments with rich visual and depth information. Owing to its exceptional 48-bit color depth and 116 dB of dynamic range, Ouster’s native color data maintains performance in lighting extremes from 1 lux to 2 million lux.

REV8 Highlights

The Rev8 OS family features completely reimagined OS0, OS1, and OSDome sensors and adds the flagship 256-channel OS1 Max.

• The Flagship OS1 Max: Provides best-in-class performance by delivering double the range and double the resolution of Rev7 through a premier 256 channel architecture powered by the L4 Max. The OS1 Max sees up to 200 meters at 10% reflectivity with a maximum detection range of 500 meters, all with a 45° field-of-view. Purpose-built for high-speed autonomy, smart infrastructure, and heavy industrial use, the OS1 Max offers native color and industry-leading reliability to power long-range, high-performance applications.
• Engineered for Functional Safety and Reliability: Every sensor is auto-grade, cybersecure to ISO 21434, and designed for ASIL-B to ISO 26262, SIL-2 to IEC 61508, and PLd to ISO 13849 functional-safety certifications, ensuring continuous uptime and industry-leading reliability in the most demanding industrial and automotive applications.
• Built For Affordability and Scale: Designed for low-cost, high-volume production deployments to support mass market adoption. With a planned 10-year production life, Rev8 sensors provide the long-term program stability and scalability required for global commercial rollouts.

"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 performance improvements, 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.”

Built for the Physical AI Era

The benefits of native color for object classification and sensor fusion, and the unparalleled performance of the OS1 Max, alongside the functionally safe, ruggedized, scalable design of the entire OS family are a game-changer for customer development and capability. Rev8 native color sensors unlock the collection of the high-quality 3D color data necessary to train the next generation of Physical AI world models. With Rev8’s focus on affordability and scalability, customers can leverage the same sensor suite for both data collection and production deployments. With these advancements, Rev8 is defining a new standard in sensing for the next era of Physical AI.

Global Adoption

Dozens of technology leaders across the industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure markets intend to adopt Rev8 OS sensors, including Google, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, Liebherr, Epiroc, Field AI, Flyability, Skydio, PlusAI, Constellis, Bedrock, Kässbohrer, Third Wave Automation, Burro, Seegrid, Gecko Robotics, Pratt Miller, AIM Intelligent Machines, Cyngn, Freefly Systems, ATI Robotics, and SwarmFarm, among others.

Ouster’s Rev8 OS sensors are available to order today and shipping this quarter.