Try to record a car's lidar sensor, and you'll see a trail of multicolored specks in its wake. Those are freshly fried pixels on the camera's image sensor. Screenshot via Reddit, The Drive ...

In fact, it's the basic idea behind lidar, ... And since we know (among other things) the exact speed of light in our atmosphere, we can calculate how distant the plane is. Now, ...

New LiDAR technology invented by University of Washington researchers integrates onto a computer chip and uses sound waves running over its surface to steer a laser beam, much like a searchlight ...

Lidar was first developed in the early 1970s to assist with space exploration; ... When linked to a high precision GPS and mounted on an aerial platform, such as a plane or helicopter, ...

A man attending this week's CES show in Las Vegas says that a lidar sensor from startup AEye has permanently damaged the sensor on his $1,998 Sony camera.Earlier this week, Jit Ray Chowdhury, an ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archaeologists are using high-tech mapping technology to virtually unearth a massive network of Mayan ruins hidden for centuries ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that lidar sensors are a “crutch” for autonomous vehicles. But his company has bought so many from Luminar that Tesla is now the lidar maker’s top customer.

LiDAR, explains Ryan Whitwam of Extreme Tech, bounces laser pulses from the Earth to a plane-mounted computer, creating topographical maps. So far, ...

The Red River Watershed Management Board and the Fargo-based International Water Institute debuted a Lidar database in March. It’s free to access and offers highly accurate measurements of ...