Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures – from squid to krill – swim from the ocean depths to near the surface to feed. This vast animal migration – the large... Read more
New instrument offers fast, low-cost tool to fight ecological degradation in Yellowstone National Park For decades the National Park Service has been locked in a battle against lake trout, a... Read more
Someday your self-driving car could react to hazards before you even see them, thanks to a laser-based imaging technology being developed by Stanford researchers that can peek around corners... Read more
3D scanning takes many shapes and forms, but all take something from LiDAR (Light detection and ranging). This has been around since the invention of the laser itself, and uses light beams t... Read more
Fleet of autonomous vehicles will serve as convenient form of public transit while reducing emissions. An exciting “driverless race” is underway among tech giants the United States: In recen... Read more
Program to develop fast, lightweight autonomous air vehicle completes first flight data tests They may not have zoomed flawlessly around obstacles like the Millennium Falcon did as it careen... Read more
A one-wheeled drone could solve several challenges of traditional and flying drone delivery Drone delivery has been discussed, promised and tested frequently over the past three years, with... Read more
A homemade gadget can disable the systems that allow self-driving cars to see where they are going, a security researcher has said. Jonathan Petit demonstrated how a modified, low-cost laser... Read more
A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and... Read more
In a leap for robot development, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs—making th... Read more
Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to... Read more
A silicon chip developed by Caltech researchers acts as a lens-free projector–and could one day end up in your cell phone. Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gath... Read more
