Hello friends.... M planning to start a new project regarding self path finding robot. This robot is aimed at having LiDAR for sensing its path. I wish to implement SLAM navigation for it. My concern is m aware that Lidar outputs huge loads off data that arduino can't process (arduino can fetch it and store it in external device, correct me if m wrong). So my question is what type of hardware platform similar to arduino(preferably which can be programmed through arduino IDE or compatible) ready platforms that can be used which can handle analyze and process the data huge data that comes from LiDAR and I can implement SLAM nav on it. Any suggestions?? Thanks in advance.
Use a RPi3+, an old X61, a PC ...
You might consider the Arduino Due, which is about 5x faster than than the Uno and has 96 kB memory. Otherwise there are various linux and windows machines that are not much bigger, but don't have real time operating systems.
But the amount of data that you need to store and process depends on the algorithms you use, so do the research and decide on that before choosing a board.