In recent years contractors have seen the advantages of employing light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology with unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also known as drones. State transportation ...

Demoing the company’s new self-driving sensors with 250 meters of range Demoing the company’s new self-driving sensors with 250 meters of range is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience ...

The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida Courtesy of NV5 Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during ...

So far, almost every autonomous vehicle we’ve encountered uses lidar to determine how far away things are, just as the winners of the DARPA Grand Challenges did back in the early 2000s. But not every ...

For Rivian's chief of autonomy, the decision to put in lidar for the EV company's coming R2 SUV was obvious. James Philbin, Rivian's VP of autonomy and AI, told Business Insider that the price of ...

Rivian is quietly redrawing the map for automated driving, and the most important line it is drawing is made of laser light.

When it comes to big data, LIDAR is right up there with the biggest generators. But outside of a few niche use cases, LIDAR–which uses lasers to build a three-dimensional model of physical objects–has ...

Carbon credits are becoming a big business. Recently, Delta Airlines was sued by an unsatisfied customer because it claimed to be carbon neutral. The lawsuit asserts that this was not, in fact, the ...

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to improve road construction efficiency and safety around the state, according to report in ...

I'm travelling,and bored,and when that happens, I look closely at the hardware I'm carrying. Yesterday it's the camera/lidar bump on the iPad Pro. And I got to thinking how weird it was that it was so ...

Elon Musk has long been a fan of, well, fibbing, and now it seems very possible he was caught in a little lie once again. The Tesla CEO has been a detractor of lidar sensors for self-driving vehicles ...