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Schott at the Sharp Edge
(Allen E. Cheves, Dr. A. Stewart Walker) - Today’s geospatial reality involves a world awash with sensors. As developers seek to embed lidar technology in ever smaller, increasingly mobile installations, the importance of sensor encasement grows. None of this is new to German glass manufacturer Schott, which is part of the Carl Zeiss Stiftung, the foundation that ...
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Velodyne’s Journey - Lidar Drives the Autonomous Revolution
(Dr. A. Stewart Walker) - We arranged to interview Velodyne Lidar’s new CEO, Dr. Anand
Gopalan, in mid-January 2020—only ten days after Anand was
promoted and founder David Hall moved up to chairman—but a
family emergency cut short the trip. An in-person interview was
precluded by covid-19, so we did it remotely. Anand was in his
factory in San José ...
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Intel Makes Lidar Too
(Dr. A. Stewart Walker) - As part of our series on lidar players in Silicon Valley, we were keen
to talk to Intel Corporation. Our curiosity about the semiconductor
giant’s lidar activities was piqued in December 2019, when the
company announced its Intelal® RealSense™ LiDAR Camera L515.
The L515 seemed to us to bear similarities the lidar sensor in
Apple’s new iPad Pro. ...
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Intelligence at the Speed of Light
(Dr. A. Stewart Walker) - LIDAR Magazine last visited Cepton Technologies in San Jose at
the end of 2017. Fresh off a new round of venture funding, the
firm was prime for an update. Managing editor Stewart Walker and
publisher Allen Cheves were welcomed by Cepton’s executive team
and briefed on everything from the status of the market to recent
product ...
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Technology Helps Combat Covid-19
(LIDAR Mag Interview) - LIDAR Magazine attended a webinar that noted how various
enterprises were exploring the use of UAVs to assist in the fight
against covid-19. When we received a release from a Californian
company, iinside, that it was using lidar with similar intentions,
we wanted to learn more. LIDAR Magazine is very familiar with
Quanergy Systems ...
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Market Report: Lidar Faces Headwinds in Evolving Markets
(Yole) - The price drop in lidar in
the past three years has
been massive,” asserts
Pierrick Boulay, Technology & Market
Analyst, at Yole Développement (Yole).
"Indeed, it is the result of strategies by
different companies and not due to the
result of mass-production. Volumes
have not evolved significantly in these
three years and mass adoption of lidar still ...
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