Sensors detect California cliff collapses hours to days before failure, report says

Following a four-year study, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography released a new report to ...

Researchers develop low-cost AI tool to help cities map urban tree canopy

As a heat dome drives dangerous temperatures across much of the United States and renews concerns about extreme heat, USC ...
AviationPros

Digital Twins Move to the Ramp: Octave’s Vision for Real-Time Operations

Octave’s Nick Karakulko explains how digital twins are evolving from static planning tools into real-time operational platforms, with growing implications for ramp safety, asset visibility and ...
techxplore

Smartphones may soon be able to track hidden objects using LiDAR

Modern smartphones are packed with incredible technology, from high-resolution cameras and advanced graphics chips to AI processors. In premium models, this hardware includes LiDAR (light detection ...
New Atlas

World’s first native color LiDAR gives machines human-like vision

For years, machines have navigated the world color-blind. LiDAR sensors – the laser-based eyes of self-driving cars, industrial robots, and inspection drones – build precise 3D maps of their ...
TechCrunch

Ouster’s new color lidar is coming to replace cameras

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 ...
Nature

LIDAR-Based Object Detection and Tracking in Intelligent Transportation Systems

LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has emerged as a cornerstone technology for perceiving and interpreting complex traffic environments in modern intelligent transportation systems. By emitting laser ...
Reuters

China's Hesai announces lidar sensor able to detect colour for autonomous driving

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, ...
Purdue University

Purdue’s AGILE3D stabilizes real-time lidar detection under resource contention

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Companies that manufacture autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, delivery robots and drones may benefit from a patent-pending Purdue University innovation that outperforms ...
The Conversation

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

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 ...
TechCrunch

Luminar lines up $22 million bidder for its lidar business

Luminar has reached a deal to sell its lidar business to a company called Quantum Computing Inc. for just $22 million, unless it receives better offers by a deadline of 5:00 p.m. CT on Monday. The ...
EDN

LiDAR’s power and size problem

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, ...