Headquarters in the Edenvale district of San Jose, California in 2021
Company type
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq: VLDR
Industry
Lidar
Founded
2016; 8 years ago (2016) as Velodyne Acoustics spin-off
Founder
David Hall[1]
Defunct
February 2023
Fate
Merged with Ouster
Headquarters
San Jose, California, United States
Key people
Ted Tewksbury (CEO)[1]
Products
Lidar
Revenue
$61.92 million (2021)[2]
Number of employees
407[2] (Dec 2021)
Website
velodynelidar.com
Velodyne Lidar is a Silicon Valley-based lidar technology company, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was spun off from Velodyne Acoustics in 2016.[3] As of July 2020, the company has had about 300 customers.[4] Velodyne Lidar ships sensors to mobility industry customers for testing and commercial use in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems, mapping, robotics, infrastructure and smart city applications.[5][6][7][8] In February 2023, the company merged with Ouster.
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VelodyneLidar is a Silicon Valley-based lidar technology company, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was spun off from Velodyne Acoustics in 2016...
called VelodyneLidar that produced Lidar products and a division called Velodyne Marine that developed a boat stabilization technology. Velodyne founder...
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Retrieved 2020-07-17. "VelodyneLidar, Nikon Announce Manufacturing Agreement for Mass Production of VelodyneLidar Sensors". VelodyneLidar. Retrieved 2020-07-23...
Waymo and lidar companies like Aeva, AEye Inc., Cepton, Innoviz, MicroVision Inc., Ouster, Valeo, or VelodyneLidar. Luminar's Model G 3D LiDAR received...
Detection and Ranging (Lidar) systems for self-driving and autonomous vehicles, such as the lidar systems developed by Velodyne. In 2020, the company entered...
David Hall, American inventor and businessman, founder of Velodyne, VelodyneLidar and Velodyne Marine David Halls, one of the chefs in Hudson and Halls...
Retrieved 2020-01-07. "Powering the Next Revolution in Transportation". VelodyneLidar. 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2020-01-07. "Aurora prizes independence in AV...
wipers to clear the lidar system. At the beginning of the self-driving car program, they used a $75,000 lidar system from Velodyne. In 2017, the cost decreased...
equipped with an Nvidia GTX graphics processor and a LiDAR optical distance sensor by Velodyne. In November 2022, Yandex launched shared rides for users...
www.irobotnews.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2021-03-22. "Velodyne and Seoul Robotics showcase lidar solutions at Modex". www.mmh.com. Retrieved 2021-03-22...
roof) and seven radar sensors. According to Velodyne, the supplier of Uber's LiDAR, the single roof-mounted LiDAR sensor has a narrow vertical range that...
"Teaming Partners". ARPA-E. Retrieved 26 October 2022. "Sheyene Technology VelodyneLiDar USA 2023.PDF". "Town of Palm Beach Award Letter for Sheyene Technology"...
the Velodyne sensor). The sensor configuration is designed to have a 360 degree field of view around the car with redundant coverage. The Velodyne and...
recording the actual dimensions of the space being photographed. LIDAR scanners from Velodyne were added in the 2017 update. It is mounted at 45° to capture...
Windows, Linux Only finisher implementing JAUS, only finisher not using Velodyne sensor Team Gator Nation (CIMAR) C, C++, and C# Windows, Linux (Fedora)...
of PCL 1.7, point cloud data can be also obtained from the Velodyne High Definition LiDAR (HDL) system, which produces 360 degree point clouds. PCL supports...
autonomous driving dataset. It includes data from includes a Velodyne Alpha-Prime (128-beam) lidar, a FLIR Blackfly S camera, a Navtech CIR304-H radar, and...
car on a flexible rack. Obstacle processing is done by a combination of Velodyne HDL-64E, Ibeo Alasca XT, Sick LMS, and stereo camera systems. In addition...
Global Information
$61.92 million (2021)[2]