Dr Reinhard Heister at VDMA Robotics and Automation on the plans for the new OPC Vision standard
Lidar
Consumer and automotive to advance 3D sensing
11 December 2018
Dr Guillaume Girardin, at Yole Développement, sets out some of the forces driving the growth of 3D imaging and sensing technologies
Leti launches project to characterise lidar sensors
9 July 2018
French research institute Leti has announced a pilot programme to characterise and assess lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles
Enhanced time-of-flight: CMOS solution for automotive lidar
29 May 2018
After speaking at AutoSens Detroit on 16 May, Nadav Haas, product manager at Israeli firm Newsight Imaging, gives his opinion on why the company’s CMOS solution is a good fit for lidar sensing in autonomous driving
On Semiconductor acquires SensL for lidar sensing tech
15 May 2018
On Semiconductor has acquired SensL Technologies, a producer of silicon photomultipliers, single photon avalanche diodes, and lidar sensing products
Newsight and TowerJazz announce high-volume lidar CMOS production
10 May 2018
Israeli firm Newsight Imaging is to produce CMOS image sensors for high-volume automotive lidar markets using TowerJazz’s foundry in Israel
BMW selects Innoviz lidar for 2021 series production
26 April 2018
BMW has selected a solid-state lidar solution from Israeli company Innoviz Technologies for series production of its autonomous vehicles, starting in 2021
Real commitment for lidar from automotive OEMs
23 March 2018
Lidar could become an important part of autonomous driving and potentially a huge market opportunity for laser and detector manufacturers, as Greg Blackman discovers at the Image Sensors conference in London
Gift of Sight
3 March 2017
Rob Ashwell on the advances being made in robot guidance, from the rise of robotics in warehouses to lighting control for robot-vision systems
European project to adapt autonomous vehicle sensors into wearable detection device
17 February 2017
A three-year European collaborative project, Inspex, which aims to develop a wearable obstacle-detection system based on autonomous vehicle technology, has begun
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