Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, today announced surging customer momentum for its Rev8 OS1 Max native color digital lidar, with payload integrators and drone OEMs across the aerial mapping market selecting the sensor for utility corridor inspection, infrastructure management, and defense applications.

Aerial mapping teams have long worked around the same constraint: fly low enough to resolve a power line and a single mission covers a fraction of the corridor; fly high enough to cover ground and the thin objects that matter most start to di…