====== Sensors ======

===== LIDAR =====
  * [[Velodyne]] Industry-starter and leader for over a decade
  * [[Quanergy]] First company building solid-state sensors
  * [[Waymo LIDAR]] from [[Waymo]] (Uses on own cars, sells Laser Bear Honeycomb only to non-robotaxi customers)
  * [[AEye]]-- 1550nm, formerly US LADAR.
  * [[Aeva]] -- FMCW from ex-Apple founders
  * [[Blackmore]] purchased May 2019 by [[Aurora]]
  * [[Hesai]] -- Leading Chinese supplier
  * [[Benewake]]
  * [[Robosense]]
  * [[Valeo]] (design by [[Ibeo]]) -- low resolution, mostly used in [[ADAS]]
  * [[LeddarTech]] -- Canadian supplier of components and tech
  * [[Luminar]] -- 1550nm LIDAR used by several teams
  * [[Ouster]] -- Spinning 360 degree units from co-founder of [[Quanergy]]
  * [[Cepton]]
  * [[Innoviz]] -- Mems mirror device from Israel
  * [[Oryx]]
  * [[Strobe]] purchased by GM/[[Cruise]].
  * [[Princeton Lightwave]] purchased by [[Argo]]
  * [[Omron]]
  * [[Denso]]
  * [[Infineon]]
  * [[Otto]] -- Subject of famous lawsuit
  * [[Surestar]]
  * [[Leishen]] Chinese maker of spinning and forward LIDARs up to 160 lasers
  * [[Sense Photonics]] -- Flash LIDAR with massive laser array, 180x90 degrees and $26M funding.
===== Radar =====
  * [[Bosch]]
  * [[Lunewave]]
  * [[Wavesense]]
  * [[Metawave]]
  * [[Arbe]] -- Israeli company with phased array

===== Visual Camera =====

  * [[MobilEye]], now a unit of [[Intel]] produces an integrated camera/processing unit for ADAS and self-driving
  * [[Clarity]], a multi-view 3-camera depth camera processing system.

===== Thermal/Non-Visual Camera =====

  * [[TriEye]] - Israeli short wave infrared camera claims good fog penetration.
  * [[Adasky]] - Thermal (microbolometer 10 micron) cameras for ADAS and robocars
  * [[Flir]] -- Major manufacturer of microbolometer thermal cameras

===== Ultrasonic =====

===== IMU =====

===== Odometry =====

===== Audio =====

===== Interior / Occupant =====

===== Other 3D =====

  * [[Espros]] -- very short range, low cost phase based time-of-flight
  * [[Tetravue]] -- High resolution depth map from intensity of returns
  * [[PMDTech]] -- Fabless chip company with phase-based time-of-flight

===== Other =====