self-driving cars

Autonomous vehicles rely on many sensors to perceive the world around them, and while cameras and lidar get a lot of the attention, good old radar is an important piece of the puzzle — though it has some fundamental limitations. Oculii, which just raised a $55M round, aims to minimize those limitations and make radar […]

Oculii looks to supercharge radar for autonomy with $55M round ...

This entry was posted in Autonomous Vehicles Fundings & Exits Gadgets hardware self-driving cars Startups TC Transportation on May 6, 2021 by Devin Coldewey

It seems like every company making lidar has a new and clever approach, but Baraja takes the cake. Its method is not only elegant and powerful, but fundamentally avoids many issues that nag other lidar technologies. But it'll need more than smart tech to make headway in this complex and evolving industry.

Baraja’s unique and ingenious take on lidar shines in a ...

This entry was posted in Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware self-driving cars Startups TC on January 17, 2020 by Devin Coldewey

There's no shortage of lidar solutions available for autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots — theoretically, anyway. But getting a lidar unit from theory to mass production might be harder than coming up with the theory in the first place. Sense Photonics appears to have made it past that part of the journey, and is now offering its advanced flash lidar for pre-order.

Sense Photonics brings its fancy new flash lidar to market

This entry was posted in Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware self-driving cars Startups on October 23, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

Luminar is one of the major players in the new crop of lidar companies that have sprung up all over the world, and it's moving fast to outpace its peers. Today the company announced a new $100M funding round, bringing its total raised to over $250M — as well as a perception platform and a new, compact lidar unit aimed at inclusion in actual cars. Big day!

Luminar eyes production vehicles with $100M round and new Iris ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware robotics self-driving cars Transportation on July 11, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

Alphabet’s Waymo autonomous driving company announced a new milestone at TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility on Wednesday: 10 billion miles driving in simulation. This is a significant achievement for the company, because all those simulated miles on the road for its self-driving software add up to considerable training experience. Waymo also probably has the most experience when […]

Waymo has now driven 10 billion autonomous miles in simulation

This entry was posted in California Electric Vehicles Emerging-Technologies Mobile self-driving cars TC and tagged google on July 10, 2019 by Darrell Etherington

As autonomous cars and robots loom over the landscapes of cities and jobs alike, the technologies that empower them are forming sub-industries of their own. One of those is lidar, which has become an indispensable tool to autonomy and spawned dozens of companies, which have in turn attracted hundreds of millions in venture funding.

Startups at the speed of light: Lidar CEOs put their ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware robotics self-driving cars Startups TC Transportation on June 29, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

Lidar is a critical part of many autonomous cars and robotic systems, but the technology is also evolving quickly. A new company called Sense Photonics just emerged from stealth mode today with a $26M A round, touting a whole new approach that allows for an ultra-wide field of view and (literally) flexible installation.

Sense Photonics flashes onto the lidar scene with a new ...

This entry was posted in Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware robotics self-driving cars TC on June 11, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

Developments in the self-driving car world can sometimes be a bit dry: a million miles without an accident, a 10 percent increase in pedestrian detection range, and so on. But this research has both an interesting idea behind it and a surprisingly hands-on method of testing: pitting the vehicle against a real racing driver on a course.

This self-driving AI faced off against an champion racer (kind ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Audi Gadgets hardware robotics self-driving cars Stanford Transportation on March 27, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

While creating self-driving car systems, it's natural that different companies might independently arrive at similar methods or results — but the similarities in a recent "first of its kind" Nvidia proposal to work done by Mobileye two years ago were just too much for the latter company's CEO to take politely.

Mobileye CEO clowns on Nvidia for allegedly copying self-driving car ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware Intel nvidia robotics self-driving cars TC Transportation on March 25, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves physical compromises that limit its capabilities. Lumotive is a new company with funding from Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures that uses metamaterials to exceed those limits, perhaps setting a new standard for the industry.

Gates-backed Lumotive upends lidar conventions using metamaterials

This entry was posted in accelerator Autonomous Vehicles Gadgets hardware robotics self-driving cars TC Transportation on March 22, 2019 by Devin Coldewey

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