Presently, lidar is transitioning from electro-mechanical to solid-state systems. What next? ‘Lidar 2.0’: software-defined, solid-state, scalable 3D sensing with lower costs; faster innovation, and improved user experience. Though lidar has been evolving with improvements in cost; size, and reliability, movement in those directions has been constrained by unacceptable trade-offs in range; resolution, and field of…