We had one of the mechanical Quanergy sensors at my last job, and I worked on integrating it with ROS and doing some mapping with it. It was slow, not well constructed (it kind of vibrated when rotating), and didn't return intensity information (though it's possible a software update could change that).
At $8000 (later dropped to ~$5600), it was poor value. I've never used a velodyne, but I looked over the marketing materials for the VLP-16 puck and it seems like a much more well thought out product. This makes sense as Quanergy is only selling mechanical LIDARs as a bridge, but the fact remains that they aren't very good.
At $8000 (later dropped to ~$5600), it was poor value. I've never used a velodyne, but I looked over the marketing materials for the VLP-16 puck and it seems like a much more well thought out product. This makes sense as Quanergy is only selling mechanical LIDARs as a bridge, but the fact remains that they aren't very good.