Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian opened the doors of its Palo Alto, California, headquarters this week for its Autonomy & AI event, giving us a front-row look at the company’s next-generation ...

Photonic integrated circuits are revolutionizing sensing and measurement, enhancing FMCW LiDAR and vibrometry with precision, ...

How do you measure the inside of a cave? You could do a bunch of hard work with classic surveying gear… or you could just use a laser scanner. [9nl] did the latter, with a scanning rig of ...

STMicroelectronics has introduced the ST FlightSense™ VL53L9, a direct Time-of-Flight 3D LiDAR module for robotics, ...

STMicroelectronics unveils new compact direct Time-of-Flight 3D LiDAR module bringing high-resolution spatial awareness to ...

Last year, I published a story about owning a robot lawnmower—A Mammotion Luba 2, to be precise. The genesis of that idea was a piece Andrew did on a riding lawnmower with self-driving tech. An ...

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have found a genuinely jaw-dropping use for the LiDAR sensor sitting inside your iPhone and iPad Pro. It can detect and track objects that are completely outside the ...

The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same ...

SHANGHAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Hesai (2525.HK), opens new tab, China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable of detecting colour, ...

LiDAR sensors once cost $50,000. Now they’re just a few hundred dollars, pushing automakers like Rivian and Ford to adopt the tech for safer, smarter cars. China slashed LiDAR costs from $50,000 to a ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...