Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced the company has acquired Bluecity, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) software company whose next-generation, lidar-based solutions solve safety, traffic and infrastructure issues. The all-stock acquisition reinforces Velodyne’s commitment to enabling customer success by delivering industry-leading, AI-powered autonomous vision solutions. The addition of Bluecity is expected to be immaterial to operating expenses and cash…
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. and MOV.AI have announced the companies are collaborating to provide robot manufacturers with enterprise-grade automation solutions, including mapping, navigation, obstacle avoidance and risk avoidance. “Adding MOV.AI and Velodyne technologies to TUGBOT.ai provided our robot with an off-the-shelf, high-accuracy navigation and localization solution for the high and dynamic environments where we are deploying…
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced Mathew Rekow as its new Chief Technology Officer. Rekow assumes the CTO role following Anand Gopalan, who was recently named Velodyne’s Chief Executive Officer. As CTO, Rekow leads Velodyne’s customer-focused advanced research and development team. Since joining the company in 2015, he has had a significant impact on Velodyne engineering and…
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced Anand Gopalan as its new CEO. Gopalan, who previously was Velodyne’s CTO, assumes the position from Velodyne’s legendary founder David Hall. Hall will continue as full-time Chairman of the Board and remain actively involved in directing the company’s technology, product vision and business strategy. Gopalan is a distinguished engineer and…