Lidar

Velodyne Lidar today announced the company has acquired Bluecity, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) software company whose lidar-based solutions solve safety, traffic and infrastructure issues. With the all-stock acquisition Velodyne wants to deliver AI-powered autonomous vision solutions.

Velodyne Lidar announced a multi-year agreement to provide its lidar sensors to Stanley Robotics for an automated valet parking solution. The service uses autonomous handling robots to help car parks to improve the customer experience and increase the number of vehicles that can be stored.

Cepton announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA to add Cepton lidar models into NVIDIA DRIVE Sim. DRIVE Sim is an end-to-end simulation platform that enables large-scale, physically based multi-sensor simulation to support the development and validation of autonomous driving.

Ouster, provider of digital lidar sensors, has signed a strategic customer agreement with autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics. The agreement includes the delivery of OS digital lidar sensors through 2023, along with forecast for additional sensors through 2025 as Serve Robotics scales its delivery fleets across U.S. cities and beyond.

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SiLC Technologies has launched a compact vision sensor delivering coherent vision and chip-scale integration to the broader market. The Eyeonic Vision Sensor uses LiDAR to provide accurate instantaneous depth, velocity, and dual-polarization intensity information while enabling immunity to multi-user and environmental interference.

Blaize  announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Lidar solutions provider LeiShen, for in-depth cooperation on the integration of Lidar and AI functions in intelligence applications for autonomous operation across a range of automotive and smart city markets in China.

Velodyne Lidar and MOV.AI  are collaborating to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. The MOV.AI Robotics Engine Platform, combined with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, addresses the growing demand for automation in dynamic collaborative environments such as e-commerce, logistics, manufacturing and hospitals.

Velodyne Lidar announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyne’s Puck lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industrial operators with an automated robotic inspection solution to support efforts in monitoring and maintaining plants.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated will acquire FLIR Systems in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $8.0 billion. Both companies are producing sensor technologies which are used in robots and autonomous vehicles.