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, 180×90 degrees and $26M funding.

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.