Ouster says its newest lidar sensor is the highest resolution lidar on the market

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On Jan. 3, Ouster announced the OS-1-128, the company’s newest multi-beam flash lidar sensor.

Ideal for “safety-critical robotics applications” such as autonomous vehicles, the OS-1-128 is the highest resolution lidar on the market, Ouster says.

With no change in size, mass, power consumption, or ruggedness compared to the OS-1-64, the OS-1-128 continues to deliver on the promise of “Moore's Law-esque” product improvements enabled from Ouster's Multi-Beam Flash Lidar architecture, the company explains.

Priced at $18,000, the OS-1-128 is six times cheaper than the competing 128-channel lidar sensor, according to Ouster, allowing the company to extend its commitment of providing the lowest pricing at every performance level.

“Ouster continues to push the frontier of what is possible in lidar; our multi-beam flash lidar architecture gives us the ability to constantly improve our performance while keeping prices low, reliability high, minimizing the sensor's size, weight and power consumption, and producing at volume,” explains Ouster CEO Angus Pacala.

“In a market where all of these metrics matter and under-delivering on even one of them is a dealbreaker, Ouster continues to provide performance without compromise.”

The OS-1-128’s 45-degree vertical field of view is the widest available of any commercially sold high-performance lidar sensor, according to Ouster. The sensor provides a consistent and dense point cloud, thanks to incorporating .35-degree vertical angular resolution, uniformly spaced throughout the field of view.

Ouster adds that the OS-1-128 also takes the “perfectly correlated 3D and 2D range, intensity, and ambient camera-like images” that it is known for to the next level, with double the vertical resolution.

The company notes that these improvements in resolution benefit from the same quality and reliability achievements that it continues to build on. Ouster also says that its simple design “sets a new bar in the lidar market and offers increased resolution without reliability compromises.”

The OS-1-128 is expected to be available for volume purchases this summer.