Automated with Velodyne Program Grows Ecosystem to 100 Partners
Velodyne Lidar (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) announced its Automated with Velodyne (AwV) program has reached 100 partner companies. This initiative aims to commercialize advanced autonomous solutions using Velodyne's lidar sensors and software, showcasing the company's ongoing commitment to innovation and growth in the lidar market. Notable partners include NVIDIA and Siemens, enhancing lidar’s role in safety and efficiency across various industries like robotics and smart cities. The partnership reflects Velodyne's strategy for enhancing visibility and opportunity in the lidar ecosystem.
- Achieved milestone of 100 partners in the Automated with Velodyne program, indicating strong market interest.
- Collaboration with key industry players like NVIDIA and Siemens, enhancing credibility and market reach.
- Focus on autonomous solutions is aligned with industry trends towards digitization and automation.
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Program Advances Velodyne Lidar Partners Worldwide, including NVIDIA and Siemens, for Industry Growth
Velodyne Lidar’s Automated with Velodyne program has achieved the 100 partner mark. This milestone confirms the world’s leading innovators see the significant value that Velodyne’s technology and marketing prowess brings to their business. (Photo Credit:
As the lidar ecosystem continues to grow – deepening the technology’s deployment in industrial, robotics, infrastructure, automotive and more – collaboration is a great example of how the AwV ecosystem is advancing the industry.
“Automated with Velodyne is the future of lidar integration and the ecosystem is essential to implementing everyday solutions,” said
Velodyne’s AwV partners, like NVIDIA and Siemens, are enabling lidar to play a critical role in driving safety and efficiency in a broad range of customer environments.
Solutions designed with Velodyne and NVIDIA technologies provide critical edge computing for robotics, smart cities and AV operation. In addition, Velodyne has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis program, which aims to bring to market a new generation of AI vision solutions to make our public spaces and workplace operations safer and more efficient.
“Velodyne is a valued NVIDIA Metropolis partner and their lidar systems, along with NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing at the edge, deliver the real-time perception and AI needed as we increasingly automate the world’s most important spaces and processes,” said
Siemens offers software solutions to develop, test and validate industrial, AV and ADAS systems that use Velodyne’s lidar sensors. Siemens technology creates a simulated environment that helps companies monitor their autonomous applications in a virtual world before moving to physical proving grounds.
“We are using Velodyne’s lidar technology to build Physics-based sensor models for our simulation software to test and optimize autonomous solutions,” said
More About AwV
Through AwV, Velodyne enables partner development by supporting innovation, promoting applications and creating lasting customer and business relationships. Velodyne has robust global sales and distribution channels and educates its network on partner solutions. Integrators have invaluable access to Velodyne’s market-leading position and dedicated team committed to helping their businesses grow. Additionally, Velodyne connects integrators to new business opportunities while also focusing on how each solution can improve people’s lives and increase safety in communities.
AwV partners encompass a wide variety of applications, reflecting the depth and breadth of Velodyne’s lidar sensor and software portfolio in three key markets: intelligent infrastructure, industrial & robotics and automotive, which encompasses AV and ADAS. The program also includes universities conducting lidar solutions research and testing initiatives.
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