While lidar has challenges, including how well it distinguishes between soft and hard objects, cost and electric power consumption, its ability to generate detailed, ghostly 3D point-cloud maps of ...

If somebody pulls this off, they will have a tool that can take camera images and produce the 3-D “point cloud” that a LIDAR produces, and, since cameras are cheaper, it will do it at much ...

It does this millions of times a second, then compiles the results into a so-called point cloud, which works like a 3-D map of the world in real time—a map so detailed it can be used not just to ...

That started back in 2019, with the LIDAR that Waymo refers to as Laser Bear Honeycomb. One of a number of sensors that the company created for its fleet of autonomous vehicles, it boasts a ...

Cepton Inc (NASDAQ: CPTN) released Komodo, its proprietary lidar point cloud processor Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip.  ...

Cepton Expands Proprietary Chipset for Automotive Lidar with New Advanced Point Cloud Processor ASIC Named “Komodo,” the ASIC significantly improves lidar performance and reduces cost to drive ...

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 you’re a company that makes robots, farm tools, security tech, or really anything that isn’t a self-driving car, Waymo has a lidar to sell you. The autonomous-tech company that started life ...

Introduced in version 15, the Global Mapper LiDAR Module is an optional add-on to the software providing numerous advanced point cloud management and analysis tools, including automatic classification ...