Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous-driving technologies rely heavily on sensors, including LiDAR, radar and cameras. Recently, there have been significant advancements in these ...

As lidar technology becomes the industry standard in powering autonomous vehicles, a young startup called Altos Radar is stepping up to challenge the light-based remote sensing technology with 4D ...

Radar and LiDAR are two key technologies for sensing the surrounding environment, widely used in industries such as automotive, robotics, security, and environmental monitoring. The fundamental ...

To bring safe and affordable autonomous vehicles to market, companies are making trade-offs across a variety of dimensions including sensor performance, practicality of deployment and price point. A ...

Hesai Group, the Shanghai-based sensor maker, shipped more than 500,000 automotive LiDAR units last year while cutting its ...

Radar, a technology invented more than a century ago and first widely used during World War II, could soon improve the performance of automated driving systems. While technology companies often ...

Radar can help with distance and speed, yet it lacks the fine-grained spatial resolution needed to distinguish a plastic bag from a cyclist or a stalled vehicle from a shadow. Lidar, by contrast, ...

Waymo's robotaxis are equipped with five lidars, six radar sensors, and 29 cameras. Waymo says lidar and radar help the robotaxi detect pedestrians before cameras can. The company showed how sensors ...

Due to its ability to scan and detect objects in the environment, as well as track their movement, LiDAR technology has great potential in automotive applications. The most relevant applications for ...

Autonomous vehicles are often described in terms of intelligence, decision-making, or artificial intelligence. In practice, however, autonomy rises or falls on a more fundamental capability: ...

Forget all the robotaxi drama for a minute and let’s geek out over Kodiak Robotics’ autonomous Ford F-150. It’s a special prototype built for the United States Department of Defense to test driverless ...