Innoviz Technologies And Dataspeed Announce Strategic Collaboration For Distribution And Seamless Integration Of InnovizSMART LiDAR Sensors Into Dataspeed's Drive-by-Wire Vehicle Systems

With an outstanding resolution, blockage resilience, range and reliability, Dataspeed is expected to integrate InnovizSMART LiDARs in autonomy projects across North America

TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading supplier of high-performance LiDAR solutions, and Dataspeed Inc. a premier provider of drive-by-wire vehicle integration and autonomous research platforms, today announced a strategic collaboration for the distribution and seamless integration of InnovizSMART LiDAR sensors into Dataspeed's Drive-by-Wire vehicle systems for defense, agriculture, mining, automotive, and off-highway industries across North America.

Dataspeed's Drive-by-Wire platforms can be integrated into autonomous offroad vehicles designed for deployment across deserts, forests, open pit mines, farmland, and mountains. These environments may expose the vehicles' sensors to mud, dirt, condensation, and airborne debris which can degrade the performance of today's LiDAR sensors that aren't designed for such conditions, leading to compromised data that can cripple a perception system during critical moments.

InnovizSMART is uniquely engineered to address challenges like these by enabling native resilience to optical blockages allowing for continuous high-resolution, long-range, reliable 3D data to be delivered into perception systems. This maintains object detection and classification capabilities even with water droplets, mud, or other debris present on the LiDAR's window, dramatically reducing the risk of perception disruptions from obstructions that typically cause both cameras and other LiDARs to perform poorly.