PMD Technologies (stylised as pmdtechnologies) is a developer of CMOS semiconductor 3D time-of-flight (ToF) components and a provider of engineering support in the field of digital 3D imaging.
[2] The company is named after the Photonic Mixer Device (PMD) technology used in its products to detect 3D data in real time.
PMD Technologies was founded in 2002 by Rudolf Schwarte and the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH[3] as a spin-off of the Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) at the University of Siegen, Germany.
[6] In 2002, together with three other nominees, the developing team of PMD Technologies, represented by Rudolf Schwarte, Bernd Buxbaum, and Torsten Gollewski was nominated for the German Future Prize, which is issued by the President of Germany, at that time Johannes Rau.
[21] The autonomous humanoid robot Justin by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is equipped with PMD-sensors.