Arbe Robotics

Imaging radar: what does it even mean

Arbe Robotics was founded on 4 November 2015 in Tel Aviv by Kobi Marenko, Dr. Noam Arkind (CTO) and Oz Fixman. Marenko was CEO from the start. On 1 April 2026 he was succeeded by Ram Machness, until then the company's Chief Business Officer, and Marenko became President. The company develops imaging radar with much higher resolution than traditional car radar. It can detect and map with high accuracy both the location of objects around the vehicle and their height, direction and speed. Unlike a camera and a laser (LiDAR), radar keeps working reliably in fog, heavy rain or dust.

A complementary sensing layer, not a competitor

Radar, cameras and LiDAR are seen together as a complete sensing set for an autonomous vehicle, with each technology making up for the weaknesses of the others, a position similar to that of Innoviz in LiDAR. The difference between traditional radar and imaging radar is somewhat like the difference between a blurry picture and a sharp one: old radar usually detects that there is "something" in a certain direction, but struggles to tell apart two nearby objects, for example a parked car and a road sign next to it.

From Nasdaq to Tel Aviv: the public path

By the early 2020s, the company had raised about $70 million in private funding. In October 2021 it became a public company through a SPAC merger that raised about $118 million more, and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker ARBE. Since May 2024 it has also traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. According to its official investor relations website, the company continues to publish quarterly financial reports and to take part in investor conferences, including the Jefferies semiconductor conference in August 2026.

Partnerships with carmakers and with Nvidia

As of 2024, Arbe employs about 144 people in offices in Israel, the US, China and Germany, and reports collaborations with 15 different carmakers (OEMs). Eleven of them have moved to a formal request-for-quotation stage, and 8 have entered an advanced proof-of-concept testing stage. Notable partnerships include being chosen by one of the world's ten largest carmakers for the next generation of its radar systems, and a collaboration with Nvidia since January 2025 to integrate the technology into the DRIVE AGX platform for autonomous vehicles. On 8 September 2026 the company announced that the radar of its Chinese partner Hirain, built on Arbe's chipset, had been selected for a Level 3 automated driving program of one of the world's largest automotive groups. Series-production deliveries are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.

Why high resolution matters for safety

Higher resolution makes it possible to tell apart, for example, a parked car and a road sign standing next to it. This is critical for reducing false alarms in safety systems, and a basic condition for making radar part of a reliable sensing set for cars at higher levels of autonomy. In April 2026, the company published a consumer survey according to which 69% of respondents would buy a car sooner because of eyes-off driving capability, and 73% would be willing to switch carmakers to get the technology.