Point cloud tooling in Python is fragmented. laspy reads files. Open3D visualizes them. PDAL pipelines transform them. But nothing treats acquisition platform as a first-class concept — and platform ...

LiDAR sensors once cost $50,000. Now they’re just a few hundred dollars, pushing automakers like Rivian and Ford to adopt the tech for safer, smarter cars. China slashed LiDAR costs from $50,000 to a ...

This study devises an innovative LiDAR point cloud down-sampling strategy that capitalizes on the properties of Fuzzy C Means (FCM) clustering membership functions in each dimension. Traditional ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...

Luminar has reached a deal to sell its lidar business to a company called Quantum Computing Inc. for just $22 million, unless it receives better offers by a deadline of 5:00 p.m. CT on Monday. The ...

Full vehicle autonomy has been about two years away for a decade or more, but at CES 2026—as happened at its past umpteen predecessors—we got a preview of promising new technologies that claim they’ll ...

Awareness of LiDAR and advanced laser technologies has grown significantly in recent years. This is in no small part due to their use in autonomous vehicles such as those from Waymo, Nuro, and Cruise, ...

Hesai Technology develops and manufactures lidar sensors for 3D perception. The Shanghai-based company provides a range of hardware, including long-range, ultra-wide view, solid-state, and mini 3D ...

Voyant has announced the Helium family of fully solid-state 4D FMCW LiDAR sensors and modules for simultaneous depth and velocity measurement. Based on a proprietary silicon photonic chip, the ...

Rivian R2 launch is just months away. The automaker has confirmed that while R2 will eventually get lidar, its earliest units will launch without the hardware. Now, Rivian tells InsideEVs that a ...