| ▲ | ACCount37 an hour ago | |
Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock. The concern isn't China dominating the area of $20 toys. The concern is platforms relevant to industry and military. Whether that, in turn, can be disentangled from "the area of $20 toys" in case of drones is unclear to me. | ||
| ▲ | 05 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock. Is Neo a $20 toy? LIDARs are getting cheap quick, at some point when ToF sensors add $10 to BoM they will be in all drones.. I guess except US only SKUs? Not like you can't get pretty much the same data using just a single camera, GPS+IMU fusion and structure-from-motion.. | ||
| ▲ | 0x457 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
That is false. DJI Air 3S, Mini 5 Pro, Mavic 4 Pro, and even the Neo 2 are consumer drones that ship with forward-facing LiDAR for obstacle avoidance. FCC proposal doesn’t distinguish that safety sensor from mapping-grade or military LiDAR - it covers any drone that “contains or integrates” LiDAR. If Air and Mini ain't hobbyist grade idk what is. | ||