CNET

Rivian Reveals New AI Chip, Rooftop Lidar Coming to R2 EVs in 2026

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 ...
IEEE

Point-TreeNet: A Lightweight Prototype-Based LiDAR Point Cloud Classification Network for Tree Species under Few-Shot Scenarios

Abstract: Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)-based few shot fine-grained tree species classification is often hindered by the severe class imbalance of forest data, where rare species lack sufficient ...
Reuters

China's Hesai announces lidar sensor able to detect colour for autonomous driving

SHANGHAI, April 17 (Reuters) - Hesai (2525.HK), opens new tab, China's leading maker of lidar, has developed a version of the technology used in autonomous driving that is capable of detecting colour, ...
GitHub

Multi-platform point cloud analysis — registration, segmentation, surface reconstruction, and feature extraction for aerial, terrestrial, and UAV LiDAR.

Point cloud tooling in Python is fragmented. laspy reads files. Open3D visualizes them. PDAL pipelines transform them. But nothing treats acquisition platform as a first-class concept — and platform ...
Autoblog

China Made LiDAR Cheap. Now Automakers Are Racing to Put It in Your Next Car

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 ...
The Conversation

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

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 ...
TechCrunch

Luminar receives a larger $33M bid for its lidar business

Luminar received an even higher bid for its lidar business as a court-run auction concluded on Monday, according to a new filing in the company’s bankruptcy case. MicroVision, a Redmond, ...
Phys.org

Bionic LiDAR system achieves beyond-retinal resolution through adaptive focusing

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...
IEEE

IP-SceneNet: A Multimodal Network for Scene Classification With Remote Sensing Images and LiDAR Point Clouds

Abstract: The remote sensing scene classification is critical in a wide range of applications. A significant number of studies have adopted deep learning methods for scene classification from remote ...
Motor Trend

The Great Sensor War Behind Self-Driving Cars Just Got Way More Interesting

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 ...
EDN

LiDAR’s power and size problem

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, ...