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Do you know if there's any (public) companies who are close to producing solid state lidar at any kind of scale?

Animats 8y ago
About 15 of them are talking about it.[1] About five have demoed.[2] As far as I can tell, nobody is shipping in volume. There are lots of rotating-scanner devices now, still expensive. LeddarTech is shipping 1x8 and 1x16 pixel flash LIDARs now.[3] That's too low-rez for self driving, and they plan higher resolutions. Velodyne's big scanner is 64x400 (full circle scan). BrashTech, which sells drones for inspecting towers, bridges, and other hard to get at infrastructure, has Continental's flash LIDAR on drones. So we're at "expensive niche product", waiting for somebody to order in volume. [1] https://www.tetravue.com/news/ces-2018-summary-of-15-solid-state-lidar-makers https://www.tetravue.com/news/ces-2018-summary-of-15-solid-s... [2] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-ces-tech-six-budget-lidar-systems/ https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-ces-tech-six-budget-lid... [3] https://leddartech.com/modules/leddarvu/ https://leddartech.com/modules/leddarvu/
- joshvm 8y ago
  Any idea if this is legitimate? [1] 320x24 resolution and it doesn't immediately look like a time of flight camera (seems too expensive, although the range is poor). Apparently there's an up to 30m version [2]. [1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Solid-State-TOF-LiDAR-CE30-p-3043.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/Solid-State-TOF-LiDAR-CE30-p-304... [2] https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-benewake-ce30-solid-state-lidar/ https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-bene...
  - Animats 8y ago
    It seems to be real; there are reviews, with videos.[1] It's easier at short range; the exotic sensor materials aren't needed. Those things are going to be a big win for small mobile robots. [1] https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-benewake-ce30-solid-state-lidar/ https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-bene...

About 15 of them are talking about it.[1] About five have demoed.[2] As far as I can tell, nobody is shipping in volume. There are lots of rotating-scanner devices now, still expensive. LeddarTech is shipping 1x8 and 1x16 pixel flash LIDARs now.[3] That's too low-rez for self driving, and they plan higher resolutions. Velodyne's big scanner is 64x400 (full circle scan). BrashTech, which sells drones for inspecting towers, bridges, and other hard to get at infrastructure, has Continental's flash LIDAR on drones. So we're at "expensive niche product", waiting for somebody to order in volume. [1] https://www.tetravue.com/news/ces-2018-summary-of-15-solid-state-lidar-makers https://www.tetravue.com/news/ces-2018-summary-of-15-solid-s... [2] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-ces-tech-six-budget-lidar-systems/ https://www.motortrend.com/news/2018-ces-tech-six-budget-lid... [3] https://leddartech.com/modules/leddarvu/ https://leddartech.com/modules/leddarvu/

joshvm 8y ago
Any idea if this is legitimate? [1] 320x24 resolution and it doesn't immediately look like a time of flight camera (seems too expensive, although the range is poor). Apparently there's an up to 30m version [2]. [1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Solid-State-TOF-LiDAR-CE30-p-3043.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/Solid-State-TOF-LiDAR-CE30-p-304... [2] https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-benewake-ce30-solid-state-lidar/ https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-bene...
- Animats 8y ago
  It seems to be real; there are reviews, with videos.[1] It's easier at short range; the exotic sensor materials aren't needed. Those things are going to be a big win for small mobile robots. [1] https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-benewake-ce30-solid-state-lidar/ https://diyrobocars.com/2018/04/08/first-impressions-of-bene...