A robot equipped with a LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser explores the area. LiDAR technology uses pulses of light to scan the environment and measure distances.

It’s hard to land on the moon, technically. We know it’s not easy. It’s not something that everyone can do.” These words of ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada, as quoted in Born To Engineer, echo with fresh ...

Applications include gas sensing for environmental and pollution monitoring in cities, direct optical communications for field-based or satellite communications networks, materials processing, ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of California, Santa Barbara, engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems ...

--ROHM Semiconductor today announced the RLD90QZW8 high-power laser diode, ideal for industrial equipment and consumer applications requiring distance measurement and spatial recognition. In ...

Here we review the Revic BR4, a compact and lightweight laser rangefinder that is packed with a suite of sensors.

Archaeologists have revealed an ancient lost Mayan city using advanced laser mapping technology, unearthing monumental structures such as pyramids and plazas. Named Valeriana, the city is believed ...

OdiPro laser rangefinder set for use on combat vehicle. The LUMIBIRD Group (FR0000038242 - LBIRD), the European leader in laser technologies, announces that its subsidiary Lumibird Photonics Sweden AB ...

Phlux Technology is offering an evaluation board for its Aura family of Noiseless InGaAs avalanche photodiodes (APDs). The APDs are used as 1550nm infrared sensors and claim 12 times greater ...

Texas Instruments' LMH13000 integrated laser driver delivers an 800-ps rise time and 50-mA to 5-A adjustable output current, enabling LiDAR modules in vehicles and autonomous mobile robots ...

Elon Musk Says Robotaxis Don’t Need Lidar – As Tesla Buys Them From Luminar The disclosure that Tesla is a key Luminar customer was made for the first time in the laser sensor maker’s first ...

Chinese Laser Sensor Maker Targeted as Tech Trade War Spreads Hesai is fighting U.S. concerns about lidar systems used in next-generation vehicles and weapons ...