He's just a lone engineer who saw Waymo's lidar patent, called BS, and forked over around $6,000 of his own money to issue a challenge to the US Patent Office, which agreed with him, voiding all ...

Waymo, the Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, will start selling its custom LiDAR sensors — the technology that was at the heart of a trade secrets ...

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, will begin selling its LIDAR sensors to customers who won’t compete with its robot taxi business, the company announced on Wednesday.

If we do a bit of math and apply Krafcik's "90 percent" reduction claim to the $75,000 LIDAR sensor Google's self-driving car originally used, we end up with a $7500 price tag. While Waymo isn't ...

There’s a cleaning system and wiper on that lidar as well. Waymo told Techcrunch that the company designed the ...

Industry experts and competitors remain sceptical of Musk’s bold claims, as Tesla relies solely on cameras rather than the more expensive laser radars (LIDAR) used by companies like Waymo.

The small mound on the back of Waymo's self-driving cars is for sale. The Alphabet-owned autonomous car company is making its "homemade" LiDAR sensor, the Laser Bear Honeycomb, available to other ...

While most autonomous vehicles rely on lone roof-mounted medium-range LiDAR, Waymo innovated new long- and short-range sensing units for their Pacifica minivans to make a more complete awareness ...

The robotaxi startup is already on its sixth-generation Waymo Driver, featuring four lidar and six radar sensors, in addition to 13 cameras. And unlike the earlier vehicles that kicked off ...

Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis may be available ... The futuristic driverless taxis rely on a combination of cameras and pricey LiDAR sensors to create maps of the road. Rival Tesla, which ...

The Waymo robotaxis are equipped with the company's fifth-generation Waymo Driver and guided by five lidar sensors, six radars, and 29 cameras. Barr's Tesla was equipped with Hardware 4 and FSD ...