An internal argument is brewing throughout the auto world over the ultimate approach for autonomous driving: should ...

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Archaeologists have discovered several medieval cities, buried beneath the forest floor in Cambodia: the largest is said to rival the modern Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, in size. It's a monumental ...

Researchers have developed a new LiDAR approach that makes it possible to image small objects with much greater precision and ...

Also known as the spinning thing atop self-driving cars, lidar is the technology that could unlock autonomy for everybody. Okay, can it see the dart from a Nerf gun? Maybe not so much, but that also ...

The Laser Bear Honeycomb perimeter lidar sensor does the job of three normal sensors, and may jumpstart autonomy in other industries. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific ...

Velodyne invented modern three-dimensional lidar scanners in the mid-2000s. But in recent years, the conventional wisdom has held that Velodyne’s design—which involves mounting 64 lasers onto a ...

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Velodyne CEO and founder Dave Hall is finding new automotive applications for the laser lidar technology he developed more than a decade ago. Spinning laser lidar sensors, invented by Velodyne’s David ...