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You're going to have to be more specific with your necessary specs, there are $100 360° hobbyist LIDAR sensors on Amazon.


No there aren't. Those use triangulation. LIDAR is time-of-flight. They also only scan a single rotating point which is only sufficient for simple robots like vacuum cleaners.


Intel's L515 lidar from 2020 was <$300, uses MEMS ToF instead of rotating for very high speed scanning. 730p@30.

Good indoor range but not really useful outdoors at any range. Scaling to higher power is indeed a challenge, but that Intel delivered so so much in 2020 for such a small price is awesome, shows potential.


Damn that looks amazing! Such a shame they abandoned RealSense.

Still, $300 is not $100 and presumably they were selling at big loss, otherwise they wouldn't have shuttered RealSense.


Apple has ToF lidar for face recognition for years now. It's a matter of spec.

Similar style single chip lidar for automotive is in engineering sampling phase now [1]. Price remains to be seen but anything sub 1k would be a no-brainer to add to a robo-taxi.

Oh, everyone in the industry thinks Tesla is .. how to put it nicely .. is irrelevant for the future because of their CEOs stance on sensors. Camera will never be enough.

https://scantinel.com/2023/07/03/scantinel-photonics-launche...




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