Velodyne, the world’s largest lidar developer, has filed patent infringement complaints against Hesai and Suteng (also known as RoboSense). The complaints were filed Aug. 13 to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The majority of autonomous vehicle companies rely on lidar, and the San Jose-based company said the two Chinese…
Velodyne Puck 32MR Lidar designed for drones & mobile robots
The Velodyne Lidar Puck 32MR is designed for low-speed autonomy, including mobile robots and drones. | Credit: Velodyne Lidar Velodyne Lidar has introduced the Puck 32MR sensor to offer a perception solution for low-speed autonomous markets, including robotics, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Velodyne said the solution is “cost effective,” but interested parties will have…
Velodyne Lidar acquires Mapper.ai for advanced driver assistance systems
Velodyne said it is adding Mapper.ai mapping and localization software to advance its revolutionary lidar-centric advanced driver-assistance systems.
SiLC takes modular, FMCW approach to lidar for self-driving cars, robots
SiLC is building lidar systems that get extra information out of photons while being safer for humans.
Luminar raises $100M to scale LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Luminar raised $100 million in funding that will help it scale production of LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehicles. This raises Luminar’s total amount of funding raised to more than $250 million. Luminar also unveiled a sensing and perception platform called Iris that has been in stealth development for the last three years.…
Sense Photonics raises $26M to expand depth perception for robots, self-driving cars
Sense Photonics has raised Series A funding for its modular, solid-state flash lidar systems, which operate like a camera and are scalable for industrial automation and autonomous vehicles.
Cornell’s “Pseudo-LiDAR” Advances Vision-Based, 3D Object Recognition for Autonomous Driving
Cornell researchers develop a novel method employing low-cost, stereo cameras that allow autonomous vehicles to detect 3D objects with a range and accuracy approaching that of LiDAR. A group of Cornell researchers have published a paper demonstrating a new approach to object detection that shows potential to significantly reduce the cost of self-driving vehicle hardware.…
What do the latest imaging systems in airborne objects reveal? Part 2
Archeological searching is being conducted from above at altitudes well below those of satellite orbits. One group of researchers has used an airborne laser scanner (ALS) mounted to a helicopter’s skid pad to reveal several cities between 900 and 1,400 years old beneath the tropical forest floor in Cambodia. The first LiDAR (light detection and […]
Automotive Sensing and LiDAR
Today, from 60 to 100 different sensors can be found on the average new car. Some pundits estimate that twice that many will be there within the next…