Eric Aguilar is CEO of Omnitron Sensors.
Eric Aguilar is CEO of Omnitron Sensors.
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Omnitron Sensors’ MEMS could rid us of the spinning tops on self-driving cars (and lower costs too)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Omnitron Sensors, which makes MEMS sensor chips, has raised $13 million to create inexpensive sensors for self-driving cars. If it works, we could say goodbye to those big spinning domes atop autonomous vehicles.

The investment will fuel the expansion of Omnitron’s engineering and operations teams, accelerating the mass production of the company’s first product: a reliable, affordable microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) step-scanning mirror for multiple markets. MEMS have been used in everything from a Nintendo Wii to tire pressure sensors.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.