By Paul Lienert and Jane Lanhee Lee
By Paul Lienert and Jane Lanhee Lee
DETROIT/LAS VEGAS, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Self-driving vehicles make use of lidar, a distant sensing know-how utilizing pulsed laser mild the way in which radar makes use of radio waves, and lidar makers ready for the automotive market to take off are courting new prospects who would use the know-how for all the things from monitoring cattle to serving to a disc jockey synchronize dance music.
Ouster, a San Francisco tech startup, is tapping new markets together with supply robots, catastrophe aid and even an strategy from the disc jockey. One other Bay space startup, AEye, is speaking to a financial institution that desires to observe cattle progress to make sure the monetary well being of a rancher who’s a mortgage buyer.
Various makes use of and prospects are wanted to maintain income flowing at lidar startups ready for the anticipated increase in self-driving vehicles, which nonetheless seems to be years away.
“We by no means took an completely automotive view of lidar,” mentioned Angus Pacala, Ouster chief government and co-founder. “We all the time anticipated to be working in many various markets.”
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