Using lidar technology, Tulane University researchers have uncovered thousands of unexplored Maya structures, including a large city with pyramids, reshaping our understanding of Maya civilization’s ...

LIDAR has gained much popularity as a means for self-driving cars to survey the space around them. At their most basic, LIDAR is a surveying method that uses lasers to paints the space around the ...

Tesla, the company headed by a CEO who has called lidar a "crutch" and "fool's errand," spent at least $2 million on Lidar sensors in 2024—about 10% of the manufacturer's revenue this quarter alone.

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 ...

Using drone-borne LiDAR — light detection and ranging equipment — that can find structures obscured by vegetation, researchers captured images revealing two unexpectedly large-scale urban ...

Tulane doctoral candidate Luke Auld-Thomas used LiDAR laser mapping to uncover an ancient Maya city hidden by the forest in ...

Tesla is widely known for pushing the limits of electric vehicles, but now, it seems, the company is exploring the realm of micromobility with an exciting concept: the Tesla Model B e-bike. Designed ...

The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.