In February 2017, on the corner of Virginia and 15 th Streets, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Hao Xu installed a roadside LiDAR sensor — and made history. While these devices ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk once called LIDAR a “crutch,” something that automakers would find themselves leaning on in order to solve the problem of self-driving. Soon after, Tesla shifted wholly toward ...

While lidar has been around for years, it’s now more affordable and accessible than ever, so we’re seeing this technology show up on a variety of professional applications … and even in the smart home ...

Apple launched a new iPad Pro Tuesday, and it features an all-new sensor. The company's latest consumer product is the first to feature a lidar sensor – although it's not the company's first project ...

We hear a lot about self-driving cars, but what’s actually in the technology that makes them possible? There are some proprietary systems in the works like AEye’s “iDAR” which uses solid-state lidar, ...

As passenger mobility becomes electric and more technologically advanced, engineers have developed several components to make car travel easier, more efficient, and, most importantly, safer. One of ...

The goal of a sensor is to gather data about a real-world parameter and convert it to electrical form. Needless to say, the techniques for doing that take many forms, but the standard method to ...

To move our society closer to the reality of fully autonomous vehicles taking over the roadways, a number of different solutions are being tested. One of these solutions is LiDAR (Light Detection and ...