Tag: ouster
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Ouster expansion supply agreements with May Mobility for autonomous vehicles
Ouster, a provider of high-performance lidar sensors, and May Mobility, a developer of autonomous vehicle technology, are expanding their supply agreements to provide lidar sensors for May Mobility’s autonomous vehicle solutions. These expansions include a binding commitment for a combined purchase of over one thousand Ouster OS1 and Alpha PrimeTM VLS-128 sensors through 2024 to…
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Motional chooses Ouster as exclusive supplier of long-range lidar for its autonomous vehicles
Motional, a specialist developer of driverless cars, has selected Ouster as the exclusive provider of long-range lidar sensors for its all-electric Ioniq 5-based robotaxis. The serial production agreement will see Ouster supply Motional with Alpha Prime VLS-128 sensors through 2026. A culmination of ten years of lidar development and learning from millions of road miles,…
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Merger of Velodyne and Ouster creates $550 million lidar giant
Velodyne and Ouster have merged to create what could be described as a “lidar giant” at a time when interest in lidar – light detection and ranging – sensors are at an all-time high because of their applications in so many robotic and automated machines. Ouster and Velodyne describe their successful deal as a “merger…
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Ouster and Vecna Robotics partner to accelerate material handling automation
Ouster, a provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors, has signed a strategic customer agreement with Vecna Robotics, a material handling automation company and autonomous mobile robot maker. The agreement includes a non-binding forecast for approximately 3,000 OS digital lidar sensors through 2025 as Vecna Robotics scales production to meet increasing customer demand for warehouse and…
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Perrone Robotics selects Ouster as ‘preferred lidar supplier’ for autonomous vehicles
Perrone Robotics has selected Ouster as its preferred lidar supplier to scale the company’s autonomous vehicle implementations. Under the agreement, Ouster is to deliver hundreds of OS digital lidar sensors for Perrone’s autonomous vehicle kit. Ouster is a specialist provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors describes the partnership as a “strategic customer agreement” with Perrone…
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Local Motors selects Ouster lidar for its next-generation autonomous shuttles
Ouster, a provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors, has signed a strategic customer agreement with electric autonomous vehicle company, Local Motors. The agreement includes a binding commitment for over one thousand OS digital lidar sensors through 2023 and a non-binding forecast of over 20,000 sensors through 2025 which will be used to meet production demand…
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Lidar sensor makers choose Nvidia Drive for development
Baraja, Hesai, Innoviz, Magna and Ouster join Nvidia Drive developer ecosystem When it comes to autonomous vehicle sensor innovation, it’s best to keep an open mind – and an open development platform, according to chipmaker Nvidia. That’s why Nvidia Drive is the chosen platform on which the majority of these sensors run, says the company.…
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Postmates chooses Ouster lidar for autonomous delivery rover
Delivery firm Postmates has selected the Ouster OS1 lidar sensor for use in its Serve autonomous delivery rover, which is being deployed in Los Angeles. The Ouster OS1 lidar enables Serve to navigate pavements, detect pedestrians, and interact with the community. The rover combines Postmates’ Socially-Aware-Navigation system and Ouster’s multi-beam flash lidar architecture to give…
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Lidar developer Ouster backed by Cox Enterprises raises $27 million
A startup company called Ouster has raised $27 million in its Series A funding round, led by Cox Enterprises, a diversified company which has a very large automotive business unit. Ouster is a developer of light detection and radar systems, or lidar, which is said to be a critical component in many new technologies, including…