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Solid state lidar is here: http://www.quanergy.com http://www.quanergy.com They were talking $250 per unit for volume pricing.

TaylorAlexander 10y ago
Quanergy has yet to ship any production units. They've also been delaying for years. I have no doubt that they are building solid state lidar, but their tech isn't really "here" yet.
- Animats 10y ago
  I was wondering what happened to those guys. They announced another new model, but haven't shipped the first one yet. As of May 2016, they were talking 2017. Quanergy calls itself "The leading provider of LiDAR sensors" without having shipped a product. Bad sign. It's definitely possible, because ASC has been shipping such devices for years, but at a much higher price point. Somebody is going to get this right soon, but maybe not Quanergy. Those spinning Velodyne things have got to go. Too clunky, and too expensive.
  - captaindiego 10y ago
    They've got a normal lidar unit they are shipping or at least offering dev kits for now (similar to velodyne puck at a lower price point and less scanning lines). So they are at least doing something in terms of real products. From what I've managed to gather from poking around a bit, I'd guess they're using a very fancy waveguide based sensor similar to this, but a more simple emitter as a way to save cost on their first generation solid state product. I've heard also 2017 as well... but also would be curious to see any actual progress.
    - TaylorAlexander 10y ago
      We had one of the mechanical Quanergy sensors at my last job, and I worked on integrating it with ROS and doing some mapping with it. It was slow, not well constructed (it kind of vibrated when rotating), and didn't return intensity information (though it's possible a software update could change that). At $8000 (later dropped to ~$5600), it was poor value. I've never used a velodyne, but I looked over the marketing materials for the VLP-16 puck and it seems like a much more well thought out product. This makes sense as Quanergy is only selling mechanical LIDARs as a bridge, but the fact remains that they aren't very good.

TaylorAlexander 10y ago

Quanergy has yet to ship any production units. They've also been delaying for years. I have no doubt that they are building solid state lidar, but their tech isn't really "here" yet.

Animats 10y ago
I was wondering what happened to those guys. They announced another new model, but haven't shipped the first one yet. As of May 2016, they were talking 2017. Quanergy calls itself "The leading provider of LiDAR sensors" without having shipped a product. Bad sign. It's definitely possible, because ASC has been shipping such devices for years, but at a much higher price point. Somebody is going to get this right soon, but maybe not Quanergy. Those spinning Velodyne things have got to go. Too clunky, and too expensive.
- captaindiego 10y ago
  They've got a normal lidar unit they are shipping or at least offering dev kits for now (similar to velodyne puck at a lower price point and less scanning lines). So they are at least doing something in terms of real products. From what I've managed to gather from poking around a bit, I'd guess they're using a very fancy waveguide based sensor similar to this, but a more simple emitter as a way to save cost on their first generation solid state product. I've heard also 2017 as well... but also would be curious to see any actual progress.
  - TaylorAlexander 10y ago
    We had one of the mechanical Quanergy sensors at my last job, and I worked on integrating it with ROS and doing some mapping with it. It was slow, not well constructed (it kind of vibrated when rotating), and didn't return intensity information (though it's possible a software update could change that). At $8000 (later dropped to ~$5600), it was poor value. I've never used a velodyne, but I looked over the marketing materials for the VLP-16 puck and it seems like a much more well thought out product. This makes sense as Quanergy is only selling mechanical LIDARs as a bridge, but the fact remains that they aren't very good.