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LiDARs have grown in popularity in recent years as better manufacturing techniques and mass production have lowered the price of this technology.

But since no single LiDAR solution is best for all applications, choosing the right LDAR can be tricky. There is no one right LiDAR, the choice will depend upon your application. A >$50k LiDAR is great for autonomous vehicles but it may not be able to properly detect an obstacle less than a meter away, a <$1k LiDAR can do that job effectively.

Watch Nick Charron and Steven Philips, PhD candidates from the University of Waterloo, talk about their experience using the Kaarta Stencil 2 3D mobile mapping module for their infrastructure inspection robotics research. In this hands-on review video, they discuss the...

Originally posted here by Albie Jarvis from Velodyne Lidar Delivers High-Resolution, Real-Time Lidar for Mobile Robots, Shuttles, and More The Velodyne Puck 32MR™ bolsters Velodyne’s robust portfolio of patented sensor technology, delivering rich perception data for mid-range applications. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today introduced the Puck...

The original article is located here. As covered in our previous post on lasers there are many different factors that need to be considered when choosing a laser sensor for use in robots. In this post, we will further explore the options...

The original article is available here In this new Robots 101 series, we will be taking a look at how robots work, what makes designing them challenging, and how engineers at Clearpath Robotics tackle these problems.  To successfully operate in the...