Orlando, Florida-based startup Luminar is making lidar sensors that will serve as the “eyes” of self-driving cars. The sensors will cost several hundred dollars apiece, while most Lidar sensors cost tens of thousands of dollars Read More
Brittany Duncan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Nebraska, has earned a nearly $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to develop software that allows Read More
Researchers at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a virtual reality-based system that lets drones navigate rooms while avoiding virtual obstacles. The “flight goggles” Read More
OmniVision Technologies, Inc. and Swedish eye tracking company Smart Eye have teamed up to develop a turnkey driver and cabin monitoring solution that targets automotive OEMs. The system integrates Smart Eye’s sensing algorithm library with Read More
ArcelorMittal – a Luxembourg-based, multinational, steel manufacturing corporation – has teamed with trainers LRMG Performance Agency and animation and game developers Sea Monster to create a virtual reality (VR) experience used to help test for Read More
Taiwan’s first large scale smart microgrid on any of Taiwan’s outlying islands, the Penghu Chimei Smart Microgrid, is now in operation in the Chimei township of Penghu Island. The new microgrid includes a photovoltaic system, Read More
Utah State University’s Electric Vehicle and Roadway Research Facility & Test Track (EVR) recently installed three new electric vehicle chargers made by a California-based company ChargePoint – courtesy of the Utah Sustainable Transportation and Energy Read More
Alberto M. Marino, a physicist at The University of Oklahoma, is collaborating with Raphael Pooser at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop quantum-enhanced sensors. In a recent study, they were Read More
A virtual border agent kiosk has been developed to interview travelers at airports and border crossings with the ability to detect deception and then flag human security agents. The U.S., Canada, and European Union have Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced that it has chosen the University of Alaska Fairbanks to be part of a test program to advance efforts to fully integrate drones into the nation’s airspace. The Read More
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