Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian opened the doors of its Palo Alto, California, headquarters this week for its Autonomy & AI event, giving us a front-row look at the company’s next-generation ...

Researchers at MIT Media Lab have found a genuinely jaw-dropping use for the LiDAR sensor sitting inside your iPhone and iPad Pro. It can detect and track objects that are completely outside the ...

SHANGHAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Hesai (2525.HK), opens new tab, China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable of detecting colour, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lidar company Luminar has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after months of layoffs, executive departures, and a legal fight with its largest customer, Volvo. The company aims to sell off its ...

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 ...