In the thick green depths of the Amazon, long thought to be untouched wilderness, a stunning discovery has emerged. For ...

Under the thick, uncompromising green of the Amazon rainforest, a forgotten 18th-century Portuguese colonial city has risen from centuries of obscurity, its presence attested not by serendipitous ...

A team of researchers found thousands of raised platforms in the middle of the rainforest using lidar technology in 2024, echoing the work Porras had already done in the 1970s. Image by Antoine ...

PSA: Lidar and high-powered lasers, increasingly common in cars and at entertainment venues, can cause permanent damage to smartphone cameras – even those built to withstand everyday wear.

Before (L) and after (R) condition of the phone camera. A video going viral on social media claims that pointing the phone camera directly at a car's LiDAR sensor could be an expensive affair.

One reddit user found out earlier this month that car-mounted lidar sensors can damage a phone camera under certain circumstances. It was the technological equivalent of staring directly into the Sun.

Waymo's robotaxis are equipped with five lidars, six radar sensors, and 29 cameras. Waymo says lidar and radar help the robotaxi detect pedestrians before cameras can. The company showed how ...

Yes, the high-energy infrared beams shot by the LiDAR sensor can damage your phone's camera. "The lidar, being a laser based system, uses infrared light waves that may cause damage to certain ...

Highly automated or autonomous vehicles are increasingly equipped not only with radar and camera technology, but also with lidar. This "light detection and ranging" is based on the fundamental ...

Stichelbaut and his collages surveyed parts of the battlefield with an aerial drone equipped with high-resolution lidar, which stands for Laser Detection and Ranging. Similar to radar but using ...