An optical principle discovered more than a century ago may soon find new applications in such areas as monitoring atmospheric turbulence, tracking airborne objects, and mapping the environment, ...

There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer appears ...

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 ...

Roborock has announced three new robot lawn mowers, including RockMow X1, X1 LiDAR, and RockNeo Q1. The RockMow X1 and X1 LiDAR offer upgrades to last year’s model with better off-roading capabilities ...

Hesai Technology develops and manufactures lidar sensors for 3D perception. The Shanghai-based company provides a range of hardware, including long-range, ultra-wide view, solid-state, and mini 3D ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. New legislation from the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would “phase-out the use” of Light ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Volvo has reversed direction on a previous commitment to supply standard lidar on the EX90 SUV and ES90 sedan. It started with a vague announcement that "To meet customer demand and due to limited ...

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 ...

Eric Aguilar was a Tesla engineer working on the rollout of the company's Model 3. Aguilar left Tesla in 2018 and cofounded Omnitron Sensors a year later. His goal is to make lidar more affordable and ...