Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian opened the doors of its Palo Alto, California, headquarters this week for its Autonomy & AI event, giving us a front-row look at the company’s next-generation ...

How do you measure the inside of a cave? You could do a bunch of hard work with classic surveying gear… or you could just use a laser scanner. [9nl] did the latter, with a scanning rig of ...

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git and GitHub, you've just made the learning process significantly easier. This two-hour Git and GitHub video tutorial shows you how to get started with ...

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 ...

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 this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University scientists and alumni developed an innovative, centimeter-scale view into ...

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, ...

Roborock has announced three new robot lawn mowers, including RockMow X1, X1 LiDAR, and RockNeo Q1. The RockMow X1 and X1 LiDAR offer upgrades to last year’s model with better off-roading capabilities ...

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 ...

Lidar company Luminar has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after months of layoffs, executive departures, and a legal fight with its largest customer, Volvo. The company aims to sell off its ...

The Rivian R2 is adding lidar, a surprising addition to a car that's set to start around $45,000. That will enable far more advanced automated driving assistance features, with the eventual goal of ...