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The WHOOP strap is the best I’ve seen and is very accurate.

We do a tremendous amount of testing to ensure real-world reliability, and our customers' results bear that out. Full functional safety certification is slated for end of this year…

This is the spec for a cold start. If you give it a warm start, you can operate it much lower than -20C! For instance, it's being used in underground mines in Scandinavia without i…

This has a single moving part - a brushless motor that turns the turntable. It's rated for over 100,000 continuous hours of operation, and passes automotive shock and vibration sta…

Email derek.frome at ouster dot io. I'd love to learn about your project!

While this is a ~80% discount on other 128 beam sensors, it's unfortunately still out of reach for the hacker community. We absolutely plan to get prices down to an affordable leve…

The take home point here is this: "But if Tesla ultimately succeeds, it won't be because it's easier to achieve full autonomy without lidar than with it. It will simply be because …

I also prefer vendors that list prices, but when they do, it's important to remember that the list price is only the maximum price.

Tim is one of the best informed journalists on lidar - and this is a pretty solid summary of where the leading companies are (although Luminar continues to be incredibly misleading…

Ouster | San Francisco,CA USA | Full-time | On-site Role: Embedded Linux Engineer, C++ generalist, DevOps Engineer (among others - ouster.io/careers) Product: Publicly we design an…

PubNub is probably the most experienced company in this area. Would be interesting to see them add their experience here.

Yeah - we're actually exploring how to address the industrial market more effectively right now. There's a lot of interest in moving from 2D to 3D lidar. Part of that is probably j…