Category Archives: AI

Autonomous Delivery Robots Go the Last Mile

Posted on July 16, 2019 by lidar

The Rev-1 may not be as exciting as some of the other autonomous delivery robots, but it just might work, assuming it doesn’t snow where you live. And you need a bike lane. From an article in Smart Cities World. … Continue reading →

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3D Modeling is Improving Productivity in Construction

Posted on July 14, 2019 by lidar

By now most people have heard of 3D modeling and how it is revolutionising entertainment industries such as film, video games, and social media for special effects. From an article in BestinAU by Luke Fitzpatrick. But you may not be … Continue reading →

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Israeli Start-Up Claims System Can See Like a Bee

Posted on July 8, 2019 by lidar

In the race to develop fully autonomous vehicles, Israeli start-Up Lirhot Systems says they “see” the road ahead and assess potential hazards. From an article in the The Jerusalem Post by Eytan Halon. While most leading industry actors have relied … Continue reading →

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UAS Center of Excellence Will Be Lead by NUAIR

Posted on July 5, 2019 by lidar

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a wide ranging series of economic development partnerships between New York State and Israel that includes a UAS Center of Excellence. The administration and several major New York health care institutions have signed a … Continue reading →

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PrimeSense 3D Scanning Invention Patent Updated

Posted on June 29, 2019 by lidar

Apple filed a continuation patent in Europe on Thursday that covers a major update to a key PrimeSense 3D scanning and projection invention. PrimeSense, which Apple acquired in late 2013, originally filed this patent in February 2013. Apple was granted … Continue reading →

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TRB AFB80 Summer Meeting is Just One Week Away

Posted on June 25, 2019 by lidar

TRB AFB80 is the standing committee focused on Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction relating to highway transportation. We will be meeting in Daytona, FL July 21 – 24, 2019 at the Daytona Hotel. Time to register for … Continue reading →

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Waymo CTO is Working on The Difficult Edge Cases

Posted on June 23, 2019 by lidar

Dmitri Dolgov, Waymo CTO is fighting the elements in his bid to bring autonomous cars to the world. The chief technology officer of Waymo, the Alphabet-owned firm born out of Google’s semi-secret X development lab, is at a point where … Continue reading →

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Cleaning of 3D Laser Scans with Machine Learning

Posted on June 20, 2019 by lidar

In this article, we introduce a semi-automated cleaning of 3D laser scans approach that incrementally trains a random forest (RF) classifier on an initial keep/discard point labeling generated by the user when cleaning the first scan(s). The classifier is then … Continue reading →

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Cruise is Sharing Data Visualization Platform

Posted on June 19, 2019 by lidar

Autonomous vehicle start-up Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its fleet of autonomous vehicles. From an article … Continue reading →

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Second Annual World Safety Summit – Time to Register

Posted on June 18, 2019 by lidar

Velodyne Lidar is hosting the second annual World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, October 2, 2019. The event is free, but we encourage you to RSVP by clicking here. In the spirit of … Continue reading →

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