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Driving at night might be a scary challenge for a new driver, but with hours of practice it soon becomes second nature. For self-driving cars, however, practice may not be enough because the lidar ...

Some common objects are often mistaken for a UFO. A recent Detroit sighting involved dozens of reflective objects moving at high altitude. Michigan's 1966 UFO sightings led to the controversial "swamp ...

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite launched into space. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have been striving to ...

WASHINGTON — Our roads might one day be safer thanks to a completely new type of system that overcomes some of lidar’s limitations. Lidar, which uses pulsed lasers to map objects and scenes, helps ...

Researchers have introduced two AI-powered advances in visual processing: one that enables robots to grasp transparent or reflective objects without depth sensors, and another that lets users repair ...

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a new vision-based system that allows robots to accurately grasp transparent and reflective objects without relying on depth sensors. The ...

Pacer Components offers a sensor which is available with three different optical technologies, infrared, visible red and VCSEL in the same common package. This gives the design engineer tremendous ...