Apple ‘Hi, Speed’ Event: 5G, A14 Bionic Chip, and LiDAR for New iPhones
Apple today announces that its new iPhone series will also use the company’s newest A14 Bionic chipset.
Tag: LIDAR
Argo AI Model Jointly Plots Vehicle Pose and Shape From LiDAR Data
Researchers have introduced a novel network architecture for jointly estimating the shape and pose of vehicles even from partial LiDAR observations.
Huawei’s Wuhan Optics R&D Institute is Developing Cheap 100/200m LiDARs Cost Lower than US$100
Huawei’s Wuhan Research Institute has established a LiDAR research team aimed to produce 100m/200m ranging products at the cost of US$500 and lower.
Google Bridges Domain Gaps in Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds
A team of Google researchers recently proposed a novel “complete and label” domain adaptation approach.
LiDAR Industry Hits Impasse: Was Elon Musk Right After All?
Since the business mindset is to focus on short-term feasible technologies, the lack of serious buyers is the real problem for the LiDAR industry.
Researchers Fool LiDAR with 3D-Printed Adversarial Objects
Researchers from Baidu Research, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have published a method for generating adversarial objects that can befuddle the LiDAR point cloud and compromise security in vehicles using the tech.
Innoviz Envisions Mass Produced Self-Driving Cars With Solid State LiDAR
Innoviz is a two-year-old Israeli provider of LiDAR remote sensing solutions. The company took a leap forward in the solid state LiDAR field recently by scoring a couple of important partnerships: BMW chose solid-state Innoviz LiDAR sensors and computer vision tech to enable its Level 3-5 autonomous vehicles in April…
Alibaba and RoboSense Announce First Solid-State LiDar-Driven Logistics Robot Cart
At the 2018 Global Smart Logistics Summit (GSLS) in Hangzhou on May 31st, Alibaba’s Cainiao and RoboSense jointly announced the G Plus, which they say is the world’s first unmanned logistics vehicle integrated with solid-state LiDAR.
A Chinese VC’s Take on Investing in Autonomous Driving
Synced recently spoke with Delian Capital Senior Vice President Xuesong Fan about the current status of automated driving startups. Fan graduated from Harbin Engineering University and worked for years on Chinese satellite engineering. In 2015 came down to earth, applying his experience to self-driving car investments.
Baidu’s Apollo Seeks to Democratize US Autonomous Driving
Synced recently attended a Baidu meet-up at the company’s newly-opened Silicon Valley offices, where details were released on the latest iteration of the Apollo platform, Apollo 1.5.
Shenzhen Based RoboSense is the Next DJI for LIDAR
The global market for this versatile, high-precision, long-distance measuring “eye” will reach US$36 billion in 2030.