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Łukasiewicz – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP

Łukasiewicz – PIAP, commonly Łukasiewicz – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, is a Polish state research institute in Warsaw founded in 1965, known for mobile robots.

Luke Air Force Base

Luke Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Glendale, Arizona, west of Phoenix, and the Air Force's primary site for F-35A fighter pilot training.

LUKE Arm

The LUKE Arm is a battery-powered prosthetic arm developed by Dean Kamen's DEKA Research under DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, the first prosthesis able to perform multiple simultaneous powered movements.

Luke Farritor

Luke Farritor is an American software engineer from Lincoln, Nebraska, who read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll in 2023 and later joined DOGE.

Luke P. Lee

Luke P. Lee, also known as Luke Lee, is a bioengineer working in bionanophotonics and optofluidics, known for PRET nanospectroscopy and the 2010 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering.

Luke Zettlemoyer

Luke Zettlemoyer is a computer scientist working on natural language processing who is a professor at the University of Washington and a Senior Research Director at Meta FAIR.

Lukoil (Лукойл)

Lukoil (Лукойл) is a Russian oil and gas company founded in 1991, Russia's second-largest by production, sanctioned by the US in 2025 and selling its international assets to Carlyle.

Lukoml GRES power station

Lukoml GRES (Лукомльская ГРЭС) is a gas-fired thermal power station in Novolukoml, Belarus, and the largest power plant in the country, with an installed capacity of at least 3,038 MW.

LULI laser facility

LULI (Laboratoire pour l'utilization des lasers intenses) is a French laser-plasma laboratory at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, a CNRS user facility for inertial confinement fusion research.

Luliang Oil Field

Luliang Oil Field (陆梁油田) is an onshore oil field in the Gurbantunggut Desert in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2000 and operated by PetroChina's Xinjiang Oilfield Company.

Lulu Qian

Lulu Qian (钱璐璐) is a bioengineer and Professor of Bioengineering at Caltech since 2019, known for inventing DNA-based artificial neural networks that classify molecular patterns.

Luma AI

Luma AI is a generative AI company founded in September 2021 in Redwood City, California, best known for the Dream Machine video product and the Ray model series.

Luma Dream Machine

Luma Dream Machine is a generative video product from San Francisco startup Luma AI, launched in June 2024 as a text-to-video tool and since rebuilt around the Ray model family.

LUMA Energy

LUMA Energy is a consortium of ATCO and Quanta Services that has operated Puerto Rico's power grid since 2021 under a 15-year contract with PREPA.

Lumber

Lumber, also called timber or structural timber, is wood sawn from logs into standardized pieces for construction and trade, graded by quality and dried to a specified moisture content.

Lumcloon Energy

Lumcloon Energy is an Irish grid-scale battery storage and flexible-power company based in Co Offaly, founded in 2008, whose 100MW plants provide stability services to the Irish grid.

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies, formerly CenturyLink, is an American digital networking company in Monroe, Louisiana. It adopted the Lumen brand in 2020 and provides fiber connectivity, edge cloud, and security services to enterprises.

Lumentum

Lumentum, also known as Lumentum Holdings Inc., is an American photonics company in San Jose making optical components for cloud and AI data centers, telecom, and lasers.

Lumi (SLB platform)

Lumi is an enterprise data and artificial intelligence platform for the energy industry, launched by SLB on September 17, 2024, at the SLB Digital Forum in Monaco.

LUMI AI Factory

The LUMI AI Factory is a European Union AI innovation hub hosted by CSC in Kajaani, Finland, among the first seven EuroHPC AI Factories, selected in December 2024 and launched in 2025.

Lumibird

Lumibird is a French laser technology group headquartered in Lannion, formed in 2017 by merging the Keopsys and Quantel groups, serving defense, industry, LiDAR, and medical markets.

Lumileds

Lumileds is a Dutch-headquartered manufacturer of high-power LEDs and microLED technology for automotive, display, and illumination, begun as a Hewlett-Packard and Philips joint venture in 1997.

Luminance (yacht)

Luminance is a 138.8-meter (455 ft) motor superyacht built by German shipyard Lürssen and delivered in January 2024, widely reported to be owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.

Luminescent downshifting

Luminescent downshifting (LDS) is an optical technique for solar cells in which a luminescent layer absorbs UV and blue light and re-emits it where the cell converts more efficiently.

Luminescent solar concentrator

A luminescent solar concentrator is a photonic device, first proposed in 1976, that uses luminophore-doped plates to guide sunlight to edge-mounted photovoltaic cells, mainly for building windows.

Luminous (model family)

Luminous was a family of large language models developed by the German company Aleph Alpha, released from April 2022 and positioned as a step toward Europe's AI sovereignty.

Luminous Power Technologies

Luminous Power Technologies is an Indian maker of inverters, batteries, and solar products for homes and small businesses, founded in 1988 and owned by Schneider Electric.

Lumo (AI assistant)

Lumo, also known as Proton Lumo, is a privacy-focused AI chat assistant from Proton AG, launched in July 2025 as the company's first AI product.

Lumos (fiber internet provider)

Lumos is a Mid-Atlantic fiber-to-the-home internet provider operated since 2025 as a T-Mobile and EQT joint venture, with a 7,500-mile network passing 475,000 homes and targeting 3.5 million by 2028.

Lump sum contract

A lump sum contract, also called a fixed-price contract, is a construction contract with a single price fixed at the outset regardless of the contractor's actual costs.