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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

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The Long Tail of Challenges

Lidar is the first sensor to drop off in terms of range and ours has a really good range but at the end of the day um it drops off. When you get the long range you have to be radar and camera primary because your lidar data will fundamentally drop off after a period of time. There's no single sensors in a great position to like really solve this problem and end without a huge extra challenge that's fascinating.

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