Austin Russell’s startup, Luminar, is aiming to get high-res lidar laser scanners cheap enough to enable self-driving subcompacts. Five years ago, physicist Austin Russell saw better laser sensors as ...

The path to self-driving cars just promised to get a whole lot more affordable, with one of the biggest expenses in autonomous hardware potentially dropping exponentially. A new sensor from Velodyne ...

Autonomous navigation, precise targeting and communication, chemical-biological sensing, and other imperative military capabilities all rely on LIDAR (radar that uses light waves to sweep for data) to ...

TeraRanger Tower is a new simultaneous multi-axis 2D scanner capable of replacing traditional laser lidar scanners. It is fully eye-safe, totally silent and has zero moving parts. Using the popular ...

YellowScan has released a new long-range lidar scanner. Voyager is a powerful solution for both manned and unmanned aircraft. With Voyager’s wide field of view, all of the points collected are ...

While lidar has been around for years, it’s now more affordable and accessible than ever, so we’re seeing this technology show up on a variety of professional applications … and even in the smart home ...

Recently, AEye, was demonstrating their LiDAR system at CES in Las Vegas. A man using his new $1,198 Sony camera found that his photographs were damaged after he took pictures of AEye’s LiDAR LASER ...