# NODAR

> NODAR is a Massachusetts computer-vision company that turns synchronized camera pairs into long-range 3D sensors. Its Hammerhead software continuously recalibrates wide-baseline cameras, matches pixels to generate dense depth maps and point clouds, and can add occupancy mapping through GridDetect. The company sells SDK, development-kit, cloud-processing and integration options to automotive, trucking, robotics, agriculture, rail, aviation, maritime and industrial customers that need machine perception without committing to a LiDAR-only stack.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Concord, United States
- **Founders:** Leaf Jiang (Founder and CEO), Brad Rosen (Co-founder and COO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 17 employees
- **Products:** Hammerhead, GridDetect, NODAR SDK, Hammerhead Development Kit 2.0, NODAR Cloud and 3D-as-a-Service
- **Notable:** Demonstrated detection of a 10 cm brick at 150 m in its 2021 Hammerhead launch test., 2021 Informa Tech Automotive Awards Startup of the Year., 2022 CES Innovation Awards honoree in Vehicle Intelligence & Transportation.

## Products & services

- **Hammerhead** — Stereo-vision engine that auto-calibrates camera pairs and produces rectified images, dense depth maps and RGBXYZ point clouds in real time.
- **GridDetect** — Optional GPU-accelerated occupancy-mapping and sensor-fusion layer that removes ground, identifies free space and produces obstacle and velocity outputs.
- **NODAR SDK** — Precompiled x86 and ARM software with C++ and Python APIs, documentation, sample data and the NODAR Viewer for customer-owned cameras and compute.
- **Hammerhead Development Kit 2.0** — Rugged evaluation platform with 5.4 MP HDR automotive cameras and optional NVIDIA Orin compute, plus ROS2 and ZeroMQ interfaces.
- **NODAR Cloud and 3D-as-a-Service** — Cloud or service processing of stereo data for evaluation, AI training, validation and production-ready depth-map delivery.
- **Custom perception integration** — Pilots, windshield integration, camera-pair processing, reference-design licensing and deployment engineering for specific machines.

## Achievements

- Demonstrated detection of a 10 cm brick at 150 m in its 2021 Hammerhead launch test.
- 2021 Informa Tech Automotive Awards Startup of the Year.
- 2022 CES Innovation Awards honoree in Vehicle Intelligence & Transportation.
- 2022 AutoSens Gold Award for computer-vision applications.
- 2022 Automotive News PACE recognition for computer-vision innovation.
- 2023 Best of Sensors Awards Startup of the Year.
- 2023 Grand Prix ACF AutoTech winner, selected from 75 global candidates.
- Hammerhead support on NVIDIA DRIVE announced in March 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published an engineering guide to building ultra-wide-baseline stereo systems.
- **2026-06** — Reported controlled pool and Boston Harbor trials examining where stereo vision succeeds and fails on water.
- **2026-05** — Demonstrated frisbee tracking at 50 meters as a starting point for drone-obstacle detection.
- **2026-04** — Released material on the NODAR Viewer and bad-weather comparisons with LiDAR.
- **2026-02** — Recorded a $575,000 debt financing in supplied company data.
- **2025-12** — Published work on 5 MP stereo systems and the calibration precision needed to realize their range.
- **2025-06** — Expanded its commercial story around 3D-as-a-Service for AI ground truth, training and validation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.nodarsensor.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nodar
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/nodar
- GitHub: https://github.com/nodarhub
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nodarsensor

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Last updated: 2026-08-22