Velodyne in the News
"Mobile Mapping and Data Collection." Michael Dunbar and Michael Neuman, GEOconnexion (April, 2008)
"Real world conditions like these prove that the HDL-64E is not a delicate laboratory piece of equipment, but a real world product ready for use."
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"The Next Step." Paul F. Grayson, Control Engineering (January, 2008)
"One of the greatest assets of the HDL-64E is its potential for increasing the safety of surveyors."
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"Velodyne Pres talks Mobile Sensing." Ray Renteria, Robot Central (November, 2007)
"Adoption of a technology that can give them a structured view of the world around their robot obviously seems
too compelling to resist, considering the adoption rates of Velodyne’s LIDAR within the DARPA Urban
Challenge ecosystem..."
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"Building the Best Driverless Robot Car." Lev Grossman, Time Magazine (November, 2007)
"A lot of new technology was on display in Victorville, but the DARPA challenge also demonstrated a new way of
developing technology. You could call it the open-sourcing of R&D, or maybe the American Idol-izing of it..."
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"Spot the Sensor." Mark Cummins, Educating Silicon (November, 2007)
"New kid on the block for the Urban Challenge, the Velodyne scanner is conspicuously popular this year. It’s used by
12 of the 36 semi-finalists, including most of top teams..."
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"Robots, start your engines." Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle (November, 2007)
"In this sensor competition, the clear winner was Velodyne, a Morgan Hill company run by brothers David and Bruce Hall..."
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"DARPA race pushes robotics forward." Stefanie Olsen, CNET News (November, 2007)
"...many more winners emerged from the event than just the obvious. Velodyne, for example, developed a high-powered
spinning laser, called a lidar.."
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"Spinning laser maker is the real winner of the Urban Challenge." Humphrey Cheung, TG Daily (November, 2007)
"Getting first place in a car race is great, but imagine finishing in 1st, 2nd and 4th places. No, it’s not
impossible because at last Saturday’s DARPA Urban Challenge, Velodyne did just that..."
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"DARPA Urban Challenge Yields its first Commercial-Grade Innovation." Ray Renteria, Robot Central (October, 2007)
"In 2004 the guys from Velodyne who make subwoofers entered a robot into the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge under the
name of Team DAD (Digital Auto Drive)..."
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"Engines of change." John Rendleman, Government Computer News (August, 2007)
"In response to those limitations, David Hall, an avid inventor, created his own Lidar scanner consisting of an
assembly of 64 lasers spinning at 300 to 900 rotations per second capable of detecting objects anywhere in a
360-degree horizontal field..."
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