According to Waymo, Laser Bear Honeycomb has several advantages over run-of-the-mill 3D lidar sensors. It boasts a vertical field of view of 95 degrees, instead of the standard 30 degrees, and a ...

Waymo and Tesla ramp up robotaxi efforts, signaling a major shift in urban mobility and the future of autonomous ...

He's just a lone engineer who saw Waymo's lidar patent, called BS, and forked over around $6,000 of his own money to issue a challenge to the US Patent Office, which agreed with him, voiding all ...

Waymo recently demonstrated why the company believes it's necessary to have lidar and other sensors beyond cameras in order to deliver a safer robotaxi service. During a presentation at Google I/O ...

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, will begin selling its LIDAR sensors to customers who won’t compete with its robot taxi business, the company announced on Wednesday.

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 ...

Waymo, the Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, will start selling its custom LiDAR sensors — the technology that was at the heart of a trade secrets ...

Waymo has demanded that Uber and Levandowski, formerly a key member of Google’s LiDAR team, return the data said to have been taken in December 2015. That hasn’t happened yet.

Waymo's fifth-generation Driver technology uses an array of sensors — including radar, lidar, and cameras — to help its cars "see" 360 degrees during the day and night, and even in tough ...