A car that navigates city streets without a driver -- steered only by a computer? That might seem impossible to many. But researchers are presenting such an automated vehicle at this year's Hannover ...

The path to self-driving cars just promised to get a whole lot more affordable, with one of the biggest expenses in autonomous hardware potentially dropping exponentially. A new sensor from Velodyne ...

The initial prototype of Terranet's laser scanner, delivered to the office in Lund in March, has undergone successful testing in a controlled laboratory environment. The laser scanner serves as a ...

They may be smart, but self-driving cars are not sleek. Alphabet’s bubble car design sports a prominent black dome on its roof that looks like an oversized flashing light. Uber prototypes offering ...

In Jay Leno’s walk-through of his restoration shop, the comedian shows off some of the latest in laser scanning tech before touching on various projects around the shop. The scanner, a Faro ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques have come up with a car-mounted laser scanner the size of a shoe box, that can survey the contours of road surfaces at ...

A popular laser ranging system used by self-driving cars can be tampered with through little more than a handheld laser pointer, a researcher has claimed. Self-driving and connected cars are the ...

[Rik]’s Hexastorm laser scanner project originally used a discrete polygon mirror controller+motor module from Sharp to spin a prism. But the scanner head was a bit difficult to assemble and had a lot ...

Modern cars generate mountains of diagnostic data, and choosing the right OBD-II scanner can make the difference between ...

GM has gone to a laser scanner for digitizing clay models. The portable unit from Minolta contrasts with GM's traditional 4,500-lb CMM. "We've been able to use the Minolta Vivid scanner on every part ...

This release is available in German. Can a computer steer a car through a city without a driver’s help? The ‘Spirit of Berlin’, a vehicle developed jointly by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute ...