VelodyneLidar · United States
Supplier · lidar
Velodyne
Velodyne pioneered spinning 3D lidar and merged with Ouster in 2023. Its VLP-16 is the lidar inside Boston Dynamics' Spot autonomy payload.
- Category
- Lidar
- Country
- United States
- Founded
- 1983
- Reported customers
- 3Named by the press or the companies
- Robots
- 3Name it in their parts
- Listed
- OUST (NYSE, as Ouster)Stock market
What it makes
From the company's own description and the sources below.
- Makes
- Spinning 3D lidar sensors used for robot mapping and navigation.
- Parts
- LiDAR
- Tier
- Components
- Founded
- 1983
- Listed
- OUST (NYSE, as Ouster)
- Products
- VLP-16 (Puck), Puck Lite, Ultra Puck
Reported customers
Supply deals and partnerships as reported by the companies or the press.
SpotBoston DynamicsVLP-16 lidar in Spot EAP 2 payloadBoston Dynamics' Spot EAP 2 autonomy payload lists the Velodyne VLP-16 as its lidar. Boston Dynamics
TIAGoPAL RoboticsVLP-16 lidar add-on kitPAL documents the VLP-16 lidar add-on, mounting kit and robot drivers in the TIAGo handbook. PAL Robotics
- Exyn TechnologiesPuck LITE lidar inside Nexys mapping payloads
Exyn explicitly says its Nexys models use the Velodyne Puck LITE lidar; the named buyer is a payload supplier rather than the robot maker. Exyn Technologies
Named in robots' parts lists
Quotes are from each robot's parts profile, which links its sources.
RH5DFKI Robotics Innovation Center · 2021Retired“Head with Velodyne VLP-16 lidar, two ZED Mini stereo cameras, infrared camera and microphones;”
MoxiDiligent Robotics · 2018Commercial“Velodyne VLP-16 lidar, Intel RealSense depth camera for close range, RGB-D sensor in the head (IEEE Spectrum).”
- TIAGoPAL Robotics · 2015Commercial
“Base laser (Hokuyo or SICK TiM561), RGB-D camera, IMU, sonars, two microphone arrays and optional wrist force/torque sensor, touchscreen, thermal camera and Velodyne lidar (PAL).”
Sources
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