Enlarge / Light’s depth perception relies on trigonometry and allows it to measure the distance to each pixel out to 1,000 m. (credit: Light) Last year, I took a look at a new depth-perceiving sensor system called Clarity from a company called Light. Originally developed for smartphone applications, Light pivoted a couple of years ago […]
Enlarge / Volvo’s future SUV will probably resemble something like the Concept Recharge first introduced in June 2021. (credit: Luminar) Level 3 autonomous driving appears poised to debut in the US as soon as next year. At the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show yesterday, Volvo announced that it intends to offer its Ride Pilot feature to […]
Enlarge (credit: 21st Century Fox) An airborne lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, which made the data public. When University of Arizona archaeologist Takeshi Inomata and his colleagues examined the area, which […]
Enlarge / Light’s depth perception relies on trigonometry and allows it to measure the distance to each pixel out to 1,000 m. (credit: Light) So far, almost every autonomous vehicle we’ve encountered uses lidar to determine how far away things are, just as the winners of the DARPA Grand Challenges did back in the early 2000s. […]
As New York City lifts COVID-19 restrictions, Fortune senior writer Robert Hackett attends a car tech demo day and tours Google’s first-ever retail store. Read More
Enlarge / Morning sun against the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, business area and campus. (credit: Fred Langer Photography | Getty Images) Every day, the Sun rises and sets on Boulder, Colorado. And, like clockwork, a layer of sodium and other elements trickle down through the sky and hit the ground, a team of researchers at […]
Enlarge / Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua shows off a silicon photonics lidar chip slated for introduction in 2025. (credit: Mobileye) One of the most underrated companies in the self-driving technology sector is Mobileye, an Israeli company that Intel purchased for $15 billion in 2017. Mobileye is the largest supplier of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) that […]
(charge: Luminar) Luminar creator Austin Russell has come to be among the youngest self-made billionaires following the lidar manufacturer surfaced on public markets on Thursday. Russell, 25, was only 17 when he set Luminar at 2012. Shares of Luminar climbed above $30 per share on Friday, a large 43 percent profit for the afternoon in […]