RoboSense rang in 2024 with big global announcements that demonstrate the company’s leadership and expansion in the lidar industry. From going public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and selling 150,000 sensors in Q4 2023, to announcing new products, and celebrating a very successful CES, the company is on a roll. Gene Roe from Lidar News speaks with North America […]
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Microdrones to Sell Designed and Made in America Drone Surveying Equipment Starting in 2024Microdrones to transfer part of its R&D and Manufacturing Activities to Huntsville, AL October 10, 2023 Siegen, Germany – Following the product launch of the EasyOne mid-year, Microdrones will start manufacturing this system in its Huntsville, AL site in 2024. In order to better support the ramp […]
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3D MAPPING TECHNOLOGY PUT TO THE TEST IN AMERICA’S OLDEST PUBLIC CAVE A professor and undergraduate students from James Madison University has geospatially scanned the oldest show cave in the United States, Grand Caverns in Virginia, digitally mapping the largest room in 3D for the very first time. Open to the public since 1806, Grand Caverns has been a tourist attraction for […]
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Ouster Now Offers Buy America and Buy American Certified Digital Lidar Buy America(n) sensors will be manufactured in Ouster’s San Francisco facility SAN FRANCISCO, CA – [June 22, 2021] – Ouster, Inc. (NYSE: OUST), a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the industrial automation, smart infrastructure, robotics, and automotive industries, today announced that it has achieved Buy America […]
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Velodyne Lidar Joins ITS America to Advance Intelligent Transportation Systems Velodyne Supports Education and Advocacy on How Lidar Can Help Improve Transportation Safety and Efficiency SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced it has joined the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) to promote the benefits of autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation infrastructure. Velodyne is the first lidar technology company to […]
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Black Swift Technologies Unveils American-Made Quadcopter Specifically Designed for Automated Industrial Inspections Boulder, CO – (February 14, 2020) – Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, announced today availability of the Black Swift E2™ UAS (Figure 1), an American-made, advanced unmanned aerial system (UAS) specifically designed for automated industrial and structural inspections. Its advanced navigation enables the Black Swift E2 […]
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Venerable Wrigley Field is raised up in a top-to-bottom restoration that took five years to complete. Wrigley Field, looking northeast toward Lake Michigan. Two new digital scoreboards flank the traditional scoreboard whose numbers are manipulated by hand. All photos: Mark Ballogg/Ballogg Photography. Wrigley Field, the second-oldest baseball stadium in the country, opened in 1914. Soon after the Ricketts family purchased […]
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Keynote Lineup for Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2019 includes Leaders from NASA and UPS and a CEO PanelPanel Features CEOs from DroneDeploy, DroneUp, Measure, Schiebel Aircraft and Skydio Las Vegas, NV – October 25, 2019 – James Bridenstine, Administrator at NASA, and Bala Ganesh, Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at UPS, will deliver keynote presentations at the 5th annual Commercial […]
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China’s Beidou GNSS begun in 2000 had only only 6 satellites ten years later, but by 2020 it will provide worldwide coverage with better accuracy than GPS. Are the GNSS sensor manufacturers going to invest in supporting Beidou and vice versa? I am doing some research on that. From an article in Bloomberg. “China is taking its rivalry with the […]
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