The Photon Matrix intelligent technology company, based in Jiangsu, China, has recently gone viral worldwide with its portable AI laser mosquito-killing device. The device integrates LiDAR, millimeter-wave radar, and an AI vision system. It can lock onto and shoot down mosquitoes using high-energy laser pulses, destroying up to 30 mosquitoes per second with a maximum range of 6 meters.
Wang Chuan, the company's founder, said that the product uses LiDAR to identify mosquitoes, emitting tens of thousands of points per second with very low beam divergence. It can recognize mosquitoes up to 6 meters away and identify their characteristics within 3 milliseconds, achieving high accuracy. The system effectively identifies mosquitoes flying at speeds not exceeding 1 meter per second and with body sizes between 2 and 20 millimeters, with an identification accuracy exceeding 95%. The system also features a safety mechanism: if it detects an object significantly larger than a mosquito entering the area, it automatically shuts off the laser.
The Photon Matrix was initially listed on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo at the end of 2025. The crowdfunding pre-sale price was set at US$648, but early daily pledges averaged only around US$2,000, leading to a lukewarm response. Then, in June 2025, Wang uploaded a field test video filmed by the riverside in Liyang to TikTok. The video's views quickly skyrocketed from 10,000 to over 70 million. A flood of traffic poured into the crowdfunding page, ultimately pushing the total funds raised to 62 times the original target.
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