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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...