Automotive News
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How Machine Vision Is Benefitting The Automotive Industry
3/9/2023
Machine vision is making its impact felt in every industry and that impact is only going to grow more and more dramatic. Let’s take a look at how it’s making its mark on the automotive industry.
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Bright Ideas — A New Path Toward Quantum Light, 3D Lidar Could Make For Safer Autonomous Driving, Reprogrammable Photonic Microchips Shipped, And More
2/15/2023
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, a look back at Photonics Best … err … West, Wits U researchers find distortion-free forms of structured light, how photonics can help keep it green, and more.
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The Netherlands And Orlando: Hotbeds Of Photonics Growth
2/9/2023
The photonics market is predicted to experience explosive growth over the next several years. The Netherlands and Orlando are offered here as examples of a country and a city capitalizing on said growth.
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The Who, What, And Where Behind Photonics’ Explosive Growth
2/9/2023
The photonics market is growing at a tremendous rate from China, Japan, and South Korea to The Netherlands To Orlando. In this two-part look at photonics’ explosive growth, let's figure out why.
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LiDAR: Helping Tomorrow’s Vehicles See Clearly Or Blind To Its Demise?
1/27/2023
LiDAR is a go-to technology when it comes to driverless cars. But should it be?
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Quantum Computing Is Mainstreaming But Are We Ready For It?
1/24/2023
Quantum computing is relatively new but is growing by leaps and bounds. Currently, there are more than 600 companies and more than 30 national labs and government agencies worldwide that are developing the technology. Its future’s so bright it’s got to wear shades – but are we ready for its inevitable rise?
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Bright Ideas — “Optrodes” Could Revolutionize Prosthetics, Luminar Lidar Hits Production
11/9/2022
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, NASA finally pins down a launch date for Artemis I Moon Mission, Luminar lidar hits the production lines, "optrodes" signal possible shift in development of prosthetic limbs.
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Location Key To Improved Autonomous Vehicle Vision
8/8/2022
Queensland University of Technology robotics researchers working with Ford Motor Company have found a way to tell an autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating.
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Bright Ideas — Laser Systems Needed To Refuel UAS, Everlasting Laser Built With BEC
6/29/2022
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, DARPA is asking industry to help outfit refueling aircraft with lasers to recharge UAS, an everlasting laser is built with Bose-Einstein Condensate, and nanoscale flying robots with light-up wings are explored as light-based communicators.
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Teledyne FLIR Object Detection And Tracking Software Accelerates Thermal Camera Integration For ADAS And Autonomous Vehicles
6/23/2022
Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the release of Prism AI, a software framework that provides classification, object detection, and object tracking, enabling perception engineers to quickly start integrating thermal cameras for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems.