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Alain Servel
DVN to Co-Host EAC Lidar Tech Expo in Suzhou This June
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Interview: Robosense Sales Director Gregory Poillion
Gregory Poillion is in charge of sales development in the EMEA region for Robosense, with a focus on automotive lidar sensors and perception SaaS. He has a great deal of experience in automotive, having held positions at Blickfeld (VP of Sales), Honeywell (Senior Director of Customer Management), Borg-Warner, Mercedes Benz Technologies, and Valeo. His education…
Special Report: Tech AD in Berlin
This event on 11-12 March was focused on applications and sensing technologies, and validation processes for AVs. Radar: Mercedes-Benz’s Dr Jürgen Dickmann gave interesting feedback on the state of the art of the radar technology and the lessons learned from the development and launch of the ‘Drive Pilot’ feature on the S- class (traffic jam…
AGC-Wideye White Paper on Testing, Analysis of Sensor Cleaners
Safety remains the key technical challenge to ensuring autonomous cars live up to their theoretical safety benefits. The ability to detect data from a multitude of sensors such as lidars, radars, time-of-flight sensors, visible light cameras, and infrared cameras, and process the data through AI algorithms to observe their environment is also at the core…
Stellantis Invests in Lidar Tech for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Stellantis has invested in SteerLight, the developer of a new generation of high-performance lidar sensing technology. Employing silicon photonics technology, which combines a universal semiconductor material with the speed of photons, the SteerLight lidar senses the surrounding environment in three dimensions with higher resolution and precision, and at a lower volume production cost, than currently…
VW Group, Mobileye Strengthen AD Collaboration
The Volkswagen Group is intensifying their cooperation with Mobileye; the two companies want to bring new automated driving functions into series production. According to a press release, Mobileye will provide technologies for partially and highly automated driving based on their SuperVision and Chauffeur platforms. VW Group brands including Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche want to…
RoboSense M3 Recognized for Advancing Safer, Smarter Drive Systems
Robosense’s long-range, automotive-grade M3 lidar won the Tech.AD Europe Award 2024, which recognizes outstanding achievements in the automotive industry. RoboSense’s M3 was honored in the Sensors & lidar Technologies category for its lidar innovation that is powering the future of intelligent vehicles. RoboSense is a product-driven company that is hyper-focused on research and development, which…
Metasurface Optics Applications in Automotive Lidar
Metalenz is commercializing metasurfaces – a new optical element that allows complete control over all aspects of light (phase, wavelength, intensity, and polarization) with a single, planar semiconductor layer. Comprised of subwavelength nanostructures, a single metasurface can carry out optical functions typically requiring four or more conventional refractive and/or diffractive optics. This document will explore…