This low-cost orange-sized sensor could be what self-driving cars need to hit public roads

A team of engineers at Rice University has developed a tiny new sensor that could dramatically improve the safety of self-driving cars on public roads. This is a compact, low-power millimeter-wave ...
Interesting Engineering

Orange-sized roadside radar ‘eyes’ aim to reduce self-driving vehicle blind spots

Researchers at Rice University have developed EyeDAR, a compact, orange-sized radar sensor for safety in autonomous vehicle ...

What Seyond’s Latest Developments Could Mean for the Future of LiDAR and Physical AI

Seyond operates as one of the few automotive-grade LiDAR manufacturing facilities in the US and boasts a production footprint that provides customers with added assurance regarding origin, quality ...
Tech Xplore

Brain-like chips and LIDAR sensors may enable safer human-robot teamwork

Robotics technology that not only performs simple tasks but also supports humans in all their tasks is among the key technologies in industrial manufacturing. But this requires that robots be able to ...
EurekAlert!

Extra ‘set of eyes’ for self-driving cars: Roadside radar sensors could reduce blind spots

EyeDAR, a low-power millimeter-wave radar sensor roughly the size of an orange, could provide radar-equipped self-driving ...
Phys.org

Bionic LiDAR system achieves beyond-retinal resolution through adaptive focusing

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...
Machine Design

Emerging Sensors Driving Automation: LiDAR, Vision & 3D Trends

Sensor fusion combines multiple sensing modalities to improve environmental perception, obstacle avoidance, and safety in autonomous systems. AI-enabled vision and 3D depth sensing are revolutionizing ...
BGR

Why There's A Black Dot On Your iPhone's Camera (And What It Actually Does)

The iPhone in your hand likely has two or three cameras on the back: Non‑Pro models typically have two, while Pro models have three. If it's the latter, your iPhone Pro model may have a larger black ...
Motor Trend

The Great Sensor War Behind Self-Driving Cars Just Got Way More Interesting

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 ...
GPS World

Innoviz Technologies demos InnovizThree lidar at CES 2026

Innoviz Technologies, a Tier-1 direct supplier of automotive-grade lidar sensor platforms and software stacks, is demonstrating its fully colored long-range lidar with camera at CES 2026 this week in ...
techtimes

AEye Positions Software Defined Lidar as a Scalable Solution for Autonomy at CES

Las Vegas, NV — At CES, AEye highlighted a focused but ambitious vision for the future of intelligent perception. Rather than competing purely on hardware specifications, AEye is betting that ...
Benzinga.com

Aeva Rockets After Nvidia Taps Its 4D LiDAR For Self-Driving Platform

Aeva Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AEVA) stock rose Tuesday after Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) selected the company's 4D LiDAR as the reference sensor for its DRIVE Hyperion autonomous vehicle platform, a ...