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 ...

Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity. The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous ...

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 ...

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University scientists and alumni developed an innovative, centimeter-scale view into ...

Awareness of LiDAR and advanced laser technologies has grown significantly in recent years. This is in no small part due to their use in autonomous vehicles such as those from Waymo, Nuro, and Cruise, ...

Most planets spend their lives orbiting a star, but some are destined for exile. According to a study published in Science on Jan. 1, 2026, astronomers have successfully measured the mass and distance ...

As a science communicator, I rarely go a full week without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of some new record-breaking object astronomers have found. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

Rivian R2 launch is just months away. The automaker has confirmed that while R2 will eventually get lidar, its earliest units will launch without the hardware. Now, Rivian tells InsideEVs that a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sasha Lekach covers electric vehicles and vehicle technology. For improved autonomous driving, electric automaker Rivian is ...

The Rivian R2 is getting lidar and the company's first in-house computer chip, the company announced at its Autonomy and AI Day on Thursday. Lidar-equipped R2s will start production at the end of 2026 ...