# Lumotive

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lumotive/  
**Website:** https://lumotive.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lumotive is a Seattle-based semiconductor company building programmable optics on its patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM) technology — solid-state, software-defined beam steering implemented in a standard CMOS process with no moving parts. Its products include the LM10 and LX10 LCM beam-steering chips, the LCM Evaluation Kit (LEK), the M30 iToF and NM120 3D-sensing development kits, and the M30/TX10 reference designs, applied to industrial automation, intelligent traffic systems, automotive ADAS and autonomy, defense, and optical circuit switching for AI data centers. Lumotive publishes an "Open Lidar API" — a real-time control interface for software-defined Lidar 2.0 hardware covering region-of-interest scanning, frame rate, resolution and range, plus a common point-cloud format — and ships C/C++ LCM control libraries with Python bindings alongside its evaluation kits. That interface is an embedded hardware-control API, not a public web API: no developer portal, documentation site, machine-readable specification, or self-service sign-up is published, and access is granted to selected partners through the Technology Access Program by contacting the company.

## Kin Score — 9.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Lumotive Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Lumotive Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Photonics, LiDAR, 3D Sensing, Programmable Optics, Beam Steering, Robotics, Automotive, Industrial Automation, Defense, Optical Networking, Hardware

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lumotive/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.