In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University scientists and alumni developed an innovative, centimeter-scale view into ...

Full vehicle autonomy has been about two years away for a decade or more, but at CES 2026—as happened at its past umpteen predecessors—we got a preview of promising new technologies that claim they’ll ...

Lidar company Luminar has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after months of layoffs, executive departures, and a legal fight with its largest customer, Volvo. The company aims to sell off its ...

The Rivian R2 is adding lidar, a surprising addition to a car that's set to start around $45,000. That will enable far more advanced automated driving assistance features, with the eventual goal of ...

Rivian just threw down the hammer and implied Tesla is dead wrong about making self-driving cars with just the use of cameras. During the automaker’s AI and Autonomy Day in Palo Alto California on ...

As promised, we are here in Palo Alto, California, live at Rivian’s inaugural AI and Autonomy day, which the American automaker has been teasing for a month now. The event was filled with numerous ...

To make the iPhone as capable as it is, Apple equipped it with several sensors. One of these is the LiDAR scanner. LiDAR — short for Light Detection and Ranging — is a sensor that essentially measures ...

Many car manufacturers view LiDAR sensors as a key component in advanced self-driving systems, and Volvo was among the first to commit to the technology. The Swedish automaker partnered early with U.S ...

Volvo has been one of the industry’s stalwart supporters of lidar for autonomous driving, even while the sensors in some of its models were frying smartphone cameras. However, the automaker has been ...

Sonair's ADAR tech on an AMR to prevent collisions. Sonair introduces ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging), a 3D ultrasonic sensing technology designed to enhance safety and perception in autonomous ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...