Product profile
microLiDAR Family
microLiDAR is LightWare’s family of compact ranging sensors for UAV and UGV autonomy. The official catalogue covers SF, LW and GRF models for altitude sens...
Facts
- Company
- LightWare LiDAR
- Product type
- component_family
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- compact LiDAR ranging for robot autonomy
- Website
- https://lightwarelidar.com/
About microLiDAR Family
microLiDAR is LightWare’s family of compact ranging sensors for UAV and UGV autonomy. The official catalogue covers SF, LW and GRF models for altitude sensing, terrain following, position hold and obstacle avoidance; the SF20/C guide specifies 0.2–100 m range and 1 cm resolution.
Market context
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Summary
Type: LiDAR sensor family
Core: Compact ranging for mobile-robot autonomy
Function: Provides range, altitude and obstacle data to UAV and UGV systems
Audience: Robotics, drone and autonomy integrators
Specifications
- grf250_range_m
- Up to 250 m m
- grf500_range_m
- Up to 500 m m
- model_groups
- SF, LW and GRF microLiDAR families
- sf20c_dimensions_mm
- 30 × 20 × 32 mm mm
- sf20c_mass_g
- 7.5 g g
- sf20c_range_m
- 0.2–100 m m
- sf20c_resolution_cm
- 1 cm cm
- sf20c_update_rate_hz
- 48–5,000 Hz Hz
Operations
- Environment
- UAVs, UGVs, robot autonomy
- Primary user
- robotics and drone integrators
- Role
- ranging, altitude sensing, obstacle detection
- Interaction model
- embedded sensor
- Mobility class
- vehicle-mounted
- Product detail
- component, 1600, 900, d1b031df7f574dfeee36efd2e4ba78d1935540576e194dbfab76fe9c25454b7a, reviewed_16x9_official_media, LiDAR Sensor, https://lightwarelidar.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SF20-Hero-scaled.png, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, https://lightwarelidar.com/, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/korthos-product-candidates-2026-08-17/lightware-microlidar-family-official-16x9.jpg, Visually inspected 2026-08-18: exact official SF20 p...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- LightWare LiDAR appoints Nadia Nilsen Group CEO — 2024-02-06
- LightWare begins shipping SF45 scanning microLiDAR — 2021-08-16