Specialist survey aircraft taking to New Zealand’s skies again this month to map coastal areas across the North and South Islands. The flights are part of Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand’s (LINZ) 3D Coastal Mapping program, which aims to…
Previously focused on ground-based scanning, the software can now extract features from aerial point clouds, classify points and build surfaces for civil engineering and GIS applications. Mach9 says its AI can produce an initial draft in hours, which survey teams then…
On November 4, NIO founder, chairman and CEO William Li said at the Internet Entrepreneurs Forum of the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit that the greatest significance of autonomous driving lies in freeing drivers' energy and reducing traffic accidents, not in…
After eight hours of driving through heavy traffic, re-routed directions to avoid congestion, and a close call with the highway patrol, I was more than grateful for the bright glow of information projected onto my windshield. And yet the most…
Sponsored by Autonomous Systems A smartbus drives itself inside the depot. Here is what it returns to operators, what a depot needs first, and what it takes to build a smartbus. On a city street, everything happens at once: pedestrians,…
Waymo will be getting bZ with its self-driving fleet Toyota has presented a heavily modified version of the bZ electric crossover, designed to serve as an autonomous driving taxi for Waymo. Operation of the driverless fleet will start in 2027 in…
Home - 3DMakerpro’s Owl 3D Scanner Aims to Make LiDAR Scanning Affordable If you work in architecture or interior design and need to document an existing building, odds are you’ve already tried scanning rooms with your phone or tablet. Built-in LiDAR on…
Production will take place at the Takaoka facility in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. As Waymo has pursued plans to operate in Japan, the self-driving taxi company and Toyota unveiled the first product to result from their partnership, which was announced…
In July, a research team reported 396 previously undocumented ancient earthworks in southwestern Brazil. They had not uncovered hundreds of buried treasure chests. They had used aircraft-mounted lasers to map the ground beneath the Amazon’s forest canopy, revealing geometric traces of…
Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to…
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