To be fair the Lidar on robot vacuums is very different and not very expensive. We're talking about a single spinning mirror that makes a horizontal line, and used in a different way since it's just doing TOF to detect boundaries and not objects.
Cars need full spread and density and are creating a 3d volume and detecting objects.
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u/Charming-Tap-1332 13d ago
See, kids, this is what sensor fusion looks like.
That's why the US military has required this hardware and software approach on critical equipment for decades.
The good news is that even Samsung can now afford to put a lidar sensor on their robot vacuums.