Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles & Argo AI Launch International Trials of Autonomous Driving With ID. BUZZ

European Argo AI test site opening this summer in Munich, Germany Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand using a combination of lidar, radar and cameras for Level 4 autonomous driving vehicles Commercial use as of 2025: Volkswagen Group’s […]

China’s First Automotive-grade Solid-state LiDAR Production Line Was Launched

RoboSense And Inceptio Announce Cooperation On Mass Production Of L3 Heavy-duty Trucks Shenzhen (China), March 12, 2021  (https://robosense.ai/) announced the launch of China’s first automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line and would start mass production and delivery of […]

Xpeng Partners with Livox to Deploy Lidar Technology in the New 2021 Production Model

GUANGZHOU, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xpeng Inc. (“Xpeng” or the “Company”, NYSE: XPEV), a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle (“Smart EV”) company, has collaborated with Livox, a leading lidar maker, to deploy its automotive-grade lidar technology in Xpeng’s new […]

Serpentine Optical Phased Arrays for Scalable Integrated Photonic Lidar Beam Steering

The University of Colorado, Boulder’s news, Leap in lidar could improve safety, security of new technology, by Kelsey Simpkins discusses a new work, a new study published in The Optical Society, by Nathan Dostart, Bohan Zhang, Anatol […]

Self-Driving Tesla Model S Spotted Near Company HQ?

Tesla reps have publicly stated that the company expects fully autonomous driving to be only ~2 years off, but how close the company actually is to achieving this goal/expectation is something of an unknown. With that thought […]