In this case, we’re lucky to have a group of veterans from the solar industry who’ve spent their careers making 25 year warranties the norm. Quality and reliability testing is a big focus at Ouster, and as with most things, we’re only as good as the team that’s doing the work. Due to its simpler architecture, small number of discrete components, and all-silicon design, the OS1 is a remarkably rugged device. What we haven’t spoken about as publicly is how we’ve engineered the OS1 to an extreme level of robustness and reliability. The OS1 couldn’t just be a good design – it had to be better engineered in every way, and I think we’ve achieved that with the OS1 being the smallest, lightest, most power efficient, and most affordable high performance lidar on the market – solid state or otherwise.

We knew that in order for the OS1 to succeed, we had to confront the expectations surrounding spinning lidar. Looking at the market, it’s clear why – nearly all spinning lidars are big, heavy, power hungry, expensive, and unreliable. They also allow for producing structured lidar data, in both 2D and 3D.īut there is also a conception that spinning lidars are by definition big, heavy, power hungry, expensive, and unreliable. They produce data in a format that roboticists have become familiar with over the last ten years, and if you want to scan – which the majority of lidars do – rotary motion is an incredibly efficient method compared to galvos and even MEMS. They can see in 360° so a single sensor can perform the work of four or more fixed field-of-view sensors. Spinning lidar sensors have a lot going for them, which is why Ouster’s first product spins. Spinning lidar sensors have many benefits, but physical robustness hasn’t historically been one of them.

3g vibration testing