Once considered an essential part of the auto industry's high-tech future, lidar sensors are now often seen as optional components with uncertain prospects. The sensors, which use lasers to depict a ...

Fully autonomous vehicles aren’t yet ready for mainstream adoption. But the sensor technology that drives them – lidar (short for light-detection and ranging) – continues to advance. Spurred by ...

Voyant Photonics integrated optics on a LiDAR photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to achieve a low-cost 4D LiDAR sensor that it claims will revolutionize machine perception capabilities in industrial, ...

Why LiDAR placement is essential for developing safe self-driving cars. How automakers need to incorporate LiDAR placement into the design phase of vehicle development. LiDAR is a three-dimensional ...

Voyant Photonics, a supplier of chip-scale frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR technology, announced its Helium platform of solid-state LiDAR sensors and modules. Built on a silicon ...

MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor intended to reach production pricing below US $200. That’s ...

Omnitron Sensors, which makes MEMS sensor chips, has raised $13 million to create inexpensive sensors for self-driving cars. If it works, we could say goodbye to those big spinning domes atop ...

Luminar has sent out Volvo’s order of lidar units in anticipation of the start of the EX90 EV’s production. Meanwhile, a new lower-cost ‘Halo’ lidar is in the making. Luminar has sent out Volvo’s ...