Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

Christopher Hernandez received funding from the National Science Foundation (grant number SPRF 1715009) for the lidar work in Puerto Bello Metzabok. Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at ...

Sensor fusion combines multiple sensing modalities to improve environmental perception, obstacle avoidance, and safety in autonomous systems. AI-enabled vision and 3D depth sensing are revolutionizing ...

Chinese lidar-maker Hesai announced plans on Monday to double its production capacity from 2 million units to 4 million units this year, as it looks to corner the global market for the laser-based ...

3D Point Cloud Image of The of Statue of Liberty With Voyant's Carbon™ LiDAR Sensor in Bright Sunlight. The past decade has seen significant investments in autonomous vehicles and 3D sensing ...

Factorial’s high-power, lightweight, solid-state batteries have demonstrated real-world performance, including over 1,200 km (745 miles) of driving range in vehicle testing and are being advanced ...

The Rivian R2 is adding lidar, a surprising addition to a car that's set to start around $45,000. That will enable far more advanced automated driving assistance features, with the eventual goal of ...

Rivian just threw down the hammer and implied Tesla is dead wrong about making self-driving cars with just the use of cameras. During the automaker’s AI and Autonomy Day in Palo Alto California on ...

To make the iPhone as capable as it is, Apple equipped it with several sensors. One of these is the LiDAR scanner. LiDAR — short for Light Detection and Ranging — is a sensor that essentially measures ...

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

Many car manufacturers view LiDAR sensors as a key component in advanced self-driving systems, and Volvo was among the first to commit to the technology. The Swedish automaker partnered early with U.S ...

Volvo has been one of the industry’s stalwart supporters of lidar for autonomous driving, even while the sensors in some of its models were frying smartphone cameras. However, the automaker has been ...