Lidar technology is the remote sensing tech that allows self-driving cars to perceive their surroundings. Working in a similar way to radar and sonar, but using light waves rather than radio or sound, ...
Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...
Waymo seems to favor a higher-detail view of the world, with Krafcik saying "The detail we capture is so high that, not only can we detect pedestrians all around us, but we can tell which direction ...
A cutting-edge LiDAR project at UCT is transforming archaeological understanding of South Africa’s pre-colonial urban ...
Waymo is developing hardware and software to make the self-driving car a reality. Right now self-driving cars are a technical challenge. No amount of sensors and mapping can currently produce a 100 ...