Lidar used in a sentence

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Also the lidar to make the point clouds is stupid expensive. Add one of these guys onto your robot and you've got a really cool set of 'wiskers.'

Eventually we will get there, but it probably won't be until vision processing and lidar gets a whole lot cheaper. We might be on the cusp though, based on the computer vision advances in video gaming.

You have to consider the cost of lidar at economics of scale, not before. If your point is that lidar won't be cheap enough even at economies of scale to make a mass market device, then just answer OPs question directly.