The biggest component was the Velodyne HDL-64E LIDAR sensor, which cost a whopping $75,000. The LIDAR sensor needed to be up high to see around the vehicle, so Google mounted it on a large riser.

Until now, the pick of the commercially available crop has been Velodyne’s HDL-64E—a coffee-can-size lump that fires 64 laser beams, one atop the other, as it spins in circles. Each beam is ...

Uber’s self-driving Volvo XC90 uses a Velodyne lidar (light detection and range) unit, said to be an HDL-64E. That model has a 360-degree field-of-view and a 120-meter range, so one of the big ...

Velodyne invented modern three-dimensional lidar scanners in the mid-2000s. But in recent years, the conventional wisdom has held that Velodyne's design—which involves mounting 64 lasers onto a ...

Here's how the MIT story explains it: Velodyne, for example, has a range of offerings. Its high-end model is an $80,000 behemoth called HDL-64E—this is the one that looks a lot like a coffee can.

“As the PTAB found, Mr. Hall’s claimed invention, as embodied in Velodyne’s HDL-64E sensor, resolved a long-felt need for a LiDAR sensor that could capture distance points rapidly in all ...

The extended distributor network includes offices in Germany, China, Israel, South Korea and the UK. The Velodyne HDL-64E is used by commercial, government and defense organizations for high-precision ...

For the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, the Velodyne HDL-64E lidar was mounted atop five of the six vehicles that finished. Lidar provided reliable, high-resolution point clouds of the surrounding ...

And that’s a tremendous problem if you or I ever hope to own one. The silver Velodyne HDL-64E you see atop many test cars costs $75,000. Even the company’s “budget” Puck model runs $8,000.

Velodyne’s Support of IVFC Accelerates Autonomous Vehicle Development Download Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail At the 10th China Intelligent Vehicles Future Challenge (IVFC), Velodyne Lidar ...

With a Velodyne HDL-64E LiDAR scanner, a black pod presumably packed full of additional sensors and electronics, and four cameras strapped to the corners of what looks like a bike rack on the car ...