The little guys or (mom and pops?)
GeoSLAM’s booth
As a testament to what small, highly creative and nimble companies can do with limited resources, GeoSLAM has risen to the top of the inevitable pile of “SLAMers,” meaning those that have developed hardware and software utilizing positioning techniques rooted in the SLAM algorithm. They are certainly not the only game in town, but their simple and reliable approach has earned them a spotlight, outshining even the big manufacturers’ SLAM solutions. I must admit that when reviewing previous attempts at incorporating SLAM for scanning I have always been a little leery of using what appeared to be mostly a dead-reckoning approach to positioning, but they have made a believer out of me. Even though GeoSLAM had previously hit a sweet spot for utilizing SLAM with the ZEB1 and REVO, it didn’t stop them from raising the bar in their recent partnership with Surphaser and producing the new SurphSLAM. This makes you wonder what else is possible utilizing GeoSLAM’s variant of the algorithm. Could the FAROSLAM be next? Here’s hoping!