Markets · Physical AI & Robotics
New perception for
Physical AI.
Robots and autonomous machines need to know what things are made of, how they’re shaped and where they are, in any light. Metalenz delivers color, depth, and polarization with a silicon layer and semiconductor economics.
Today’s machine vision is a stack of compromises.
Machine vision systems see the world through accumulated parts: an RGB camera, a separate depth sensor, extra illumination and software fusion to stitch it together. Every added part means more cost, more calibration and more latency, and the data is still the same brightness and color every competitor trains on.
Complex Systems
Every added camera, emitter and fusion step adds cost, power and calibration.
Blind to material
Conventional cameras can’t tell glass from plastic, or skin from silicone.
Misaligned signals
Separate sensors capture the scene from different points, so data must be fused after the fact.
New Optical Intelligence with Sensor Integrated Hardware.
No fusion. No latency. At a price point machine vision has never seen.
RGB and Depth
Natively aligned visible and depth from a single silicon layer.
Explore the PxE platform →Train on data no competitor can generate.
Every AI model today learns from the same billions of standard images. Metalenz hardware generates new, physics-based datasets that don’t exist anywhere else, and can only be created with the physical sensor.
The moat
No software substitute.
- Unique information, encoded in hardware
- Wafer-level integration at semiconductor economics
- Proven at consumer volume: 300M+ metasurfaces deployed
Every AI model today
Billions of standard images
Cameras, phones, the internet
Brightness + color only
AI / Foundation model
Trained on the same data as every competitor
Hard ceiling: same data, same models.
Simplify the system
One camera that does it all.
Today · stereo depth camera
4 discrete optical components
- 1 RGB camera color and texture
- 2 Left IR imager stereo pair
- 3 Right IR imager stereo pair, set apart on a wide baseline
- 4 IR dot projector active illumination for depth
With Metalenz
One camera: RGB, IR, depth, polarization
Single Metalenz camera
Replaces 1–4. No stereo baseline, no projector.
A smaller, simpler sensor head for arms, grippers and mobile robots.
Applications
Equipping Machine Vision with New Understanding.
Piece picking & sorting
Identify and grasp transparent, reflective and mixed-material items reliably.
Navigation
Detect glass, wet floors and low-contrast obstacles that fool standard cameras.
Inspection
Spot surface defects and material differences at production speed.
Let’s talk about your perception stack.
Specifications, evaluation details and roadmaps are shared under NDA. Tell us what you’re building and the right person on our team will be in touch.