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| Jul 23, 2024 | Ex-Apple car engineers’ startup Vayu offers autonomous delivery robots sans Lidar sensors | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Generative AI is ushering in a new age of smart robots that can handle complex workflows in enterprise settings. ... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Marta Thoma Hall and David Hall Launch a New Foundation with Rising Tides, an Art Exhibition | On View at the Floating Museum, in the Alameda River
ALAMEDA, Calif., June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 8th, 2024, "Rising Tides," the new Hall Art and Technology Foundation is exhibiting its art collection, celebrated with fe... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Self-Driving Car Company Ouster Reports Sales Miss | Lidar maker Ouster reported sales that fell short of Wall Street estimates, but the company just wrapped up its merger with Velodyne, making the past less relevant than what is coming in 2023 and beyond.
Ouster (ticker: OUST) reported sales... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Fresh off its merger, Ouster-Velodyne make a bet on smart infrastructure | With lidar companies Ouster and Velodyne officially merged, CEO Angus Pacala has identified the next phase of growth. And it’s not self-driving cars or even advanced driver assistance systems. It’s smart infrastructure.
“I keep saying this ... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | 12 Marketing Moves Businesses Can Use To Reach Older And Younger Audiences | There is a stark difference between how businesses market themselves to get to younger and older audiences. While most of the younger audiences rely mostly on social media, older audiences may use other spaces that can be a bit more difficu... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | 15 Smart Strategies To Get Repeat Visitors To Your Company Blog | Blogging is a great marketing tactic to drive organic traffic to your website. Providing your consumers with valuable content and information can help solidify your status as an industry expert and create loyal customers in the process. A c... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Austin-based Strap Technologies Wins Best in Show at SXSW Innovation Awards | Austin-based Strap Technologies won Best in Show at the 2022 SXSW Innovation Awards. |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Velodyne Lidar soars 25% after issuing Amazon warrant to buy nearly 40 million shares of the autonomous driving tech company | Velodyne Lidar jumped as much as 25% Tuesday after issuing a warrant to an Amazon subsidiary to buy nearly 40 million shares.
The amount represents almost 16% of the auto-sensor maker, which went public in 2020.
Amazon would get a board obs... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Amazon Deal Has Shares of Lidar Maker Velodyne Soaring | Amazon.com is taking a stake in Velodyne Lidar That has Velodyne shares on the move—big time. The question investors will ask Tuesday is why is Amazon is interested in the lidar maker?
Velodyne (ticker: VLDR) investors aren’t too concerned ... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Velodyne Lidar soars 25% after issuing Amazon warrant to buy nearly 40 million shares of the autonomous driving tech company | A UnitreeRobotics A1 robot dog on display at Velodyne Lidar booth on April 23, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Zhe Ji/Getty Images
Velodyne Lidar jumped as much as 25% Tuesday after issuing a warrant to an Amazon subsidiary to buy nearly 40 millio... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | Theodore Tewksbury to take over as Velodyne CEO | Velodyne Lidar is welcoming a new CEO. The sensor company said that Theodore Tewksbury would take over the role starting November 10, the most recent in a string of changes to Velodyne’s C-suite since the beginning of this year.
“I was attr... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Momenta Invests in Fixposition | Autonomous Navigation has a Bright Future |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Momenta Invests in Fixposition | Autonomous Navigation has a Bright Future
Momenta is proud to announce its investment in Fixposition, a cutting-edge Swiss technology company enabling centimeter-level positioning in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) degraded and de... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Momenta invests in Fixposition, the future of autonomous navigation | The future of autonomous navigation is bright - Michael Dolbec
ZURICH (PRWEB) October 26, 2021
Momenta is proud to announce its investment in Fixposition, a cutting-edge Swiss technology company enabling centimeter-level positioning in Glob... |
| Sep 19, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar : AGM Selects Velodyne Lidar's Alpha Prime Sensor for New Mobile Scanning System | AGM Provides Accurate and Powerful Mobile Mapping for Complex Applications Including Infrastructure, Smart City, More
AGM Systems Velodyne Lidar announced AGM Systems LLC has deployed the Alpha Prime lidar sensor on the AGM-MS5.Prime, AGM's... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar : Lidar Technology Safeguards Privacy in Security and Infrastructure | Concerns about data privacy and protection against misuse have accompanied the adoption of smart city technologies, as we have previously highlighted. Recently, these concerns have grown. In June 2021, the European Data Protection Board and... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar Leadership Spotlight: Christina Aizcorbe | Christina Aizcorbe has newly joined Velodyne Lidar as our Vice President of Government Affairs. She is responsible for building an effective government affairs strategy in areas such as furthering safety on roadways and in communities, adva... |
| Aug 6, 2021 | ANYbotics Boosts Autonomous Mobile Robots With Velodyne Lidar Sensors | Equipped with Velodyne Puck™ Sensors, ANYbotics Robots Automate Industrial Inspections
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyne’s Puck lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industria... |
| Aug 6, 2021 | The cost of Velodyne’s internal drama is starting to add up | Velodyne Lidar, the sensor company that went public a year ago when it merged with special purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., reported its second quarter earnings Thursday, results that show a company spending more to find n... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar Introduces Vella Development Kit For Building Autonomous Solutions | New Software Toolkit Simplifies the Development of Lidar-based Applications
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (VLDR, ) announced a new software development kit which allows customers to utilize the advanced capabilities of Velodyne’s Vella lidar percept... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar CEO resigns in latest internal drama | Velodyne Lidar CEO Anand Gopalan is leaving the lidar company at the end of July as the sensor supplier continues to struggle with internal drama.
Gopalan, who was previously CTO, is leaving the top leadership position after about a year an... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar Leadership Spotlight: Jim Barnhart | Jim Barnhart recently joined Velodyne Lidar as our Chief Operating Officer at Velodyne Lidar. He is responsible for leading global automated mass manufacturing operations that produce world-class lidar sensors.
Jim is a results-delivering e... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Seabed Selects Velodyne Lidar Sensors For Mobile Mapping System | Equipped with Velodyne Puck Sensors, Seabed Mobile Mapping Systems Support Marine Environment Protection and Sustainability
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced Seabed B.V., which specializes in high quality equipment for offshore surveying and d... |
| Mar 23, 2021 | Sentries at the Intersection of Technology and Security | NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage
NEW YORK, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. is a global military superpower, providing its 2.4 million active and reserve troops with every conceivable capability through a massive military industria... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | 11 Types Of Business Communication Best Handled By Phone | Digital communications dominate these days, both personally and professionally. As professional communication has shifted dramatically from in-person, in-office discussion to online chat over the last year, the ubiquity of online conversati... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Velodyne Lidar : NextDroid Helps AV and ADAS Developers Improve Feature Safety While Reducing Test Costs | Interview with David Bruemmer, NextDroid's Chief Strategy Officer
Roof-mounted NextDroid SLED equipped with Velodyne Alpha Prime sensor.
Validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AV) and advanced assistance driver system (ADAS) features... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | 16 Big Upcoming Social Media Trends And How Marketers Can Use Them | At the start of each new year, there's always a hint of anticipation about the coming trends. In marketing and communications, trends are vital since they allow marketers to connect to their core demographic in a more in-depth way. |
| Jan 18, 2021 | The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is ‘doomed’ | Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of the self-driving-car tech startup Luminar, is the youngest billionaire. Luminar
Luminar CEO Austin Russell is the youngest self-made billionaire after taking his company public via a special-purpose ac... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | The Incredible Shrinking LiDAR | Velodyne Lidar Inc. systems sit on a table at the DeepMap Inc. office in Palo Alto, California, U.S. ... [+] - Photographer: Michael Short/ Bloomberg© 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger | Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging with special purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc., with a post-deal market valuation of $3.... |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Here’s a list of tech companies that the SBA says took PPP money | The U.S. Treasury Department released Monday a highly anticipated trove of data identifying every company that has received a loan of more than $150,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — a list that includes some of the hottest n... |
| Jul 2, 2020 | Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path | Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said Thursday it has struck a deal to merge with special purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., wit... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Rajant And Velodyne Lidar Support Portwide Autonomy for DGWorld’s ITVs At DP World’s Largest Port | M2M Wireless and Lidar Integral to Jebel Ali Port Automation by DGWorld
Malvern, PA – June 18, 2020: Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a market leader in lidar technology, togethe... |
| Dec 10, 2019 | Baidu-backed lidar sensor maker Velodyne lays off Beijing office and halts direct sales in China | Baidu- and Ford-backed lidar sensor company Velodyne Lidar is planning to lay off more than 20 employees in its Beijing office and discontinue the direct sale of its lidar sensors in China, reported by local media outlet Huxiu.
Sources said... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Rajant and Velodyne Demonstrate Lidar Over Cyber Secure Wireless at IAA Frankfurt, Key Components in the Modern Transportation and Industrial Eco-System | Visit Rajant and Velodyne in Hall 8.0 Booth A13
Malvern, PA – September 12, 2019: Rajant Corporation, the exclusive provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks and Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a market leader in lidar technology, are demonstrating... |
| Jul 23, 2019 | Velodyne Lidar Buys Mapper.ai | Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that provides lidar solutions for autonomy and driver assistance, acquired mapping and localization software as well as intellectual property assets from Mapper.ai.
The amount of the de... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | Apple in Talks with Companies to Design a Revolutionary Sensor that Provides a 3D Distant View of the Road Ahead
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| Mar 9, 2019 | Waymo unleashes laser bear, Bird spreads its wings, Lyft tightens its belt | Welcome back to the TechCrunch transportation newsletter; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is the fifth edition of our newsletter and we love the reader feedback. Keep it coming.
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| Jun 14, 2018 | Volvo Takes Stake In Laser Vision Upstart Luminar, To Use Its Sensors In Self-Driving Cars | Lidar maker Luminar says its sensors generate the highest-resolution images currently available for... [+] autonomous vehicles. Luminar |
| Jun 2, 2018 | Luminar’s lidar gives self-driving cars laser vision | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Austin Russell, founder and CEO of lidar startup Luminar Technologies, is much taller in person than in pictures.
We met at a hotel lob... |
| Jun 2, 2018 | Luminar’s lidar gives self-driving cars laser vision | Austin Russell, founder and CEO of lidar startup Luminar Technologies, is much taller in person than in pictures.
We met at a hotel lobby in Midtown Manhattan, where he and cofounder Jason Eichenholz were recuperating after a whirlwind New ... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | A LiDAR Prodigy Cranks Up Production In The Race For Robot Car Vision Sales | Austin Russell, Luminar's CEO and co-founder, is convinced his company has the most advanced,... [+] highest resolution laser LIDAR sensor on the market and he's quickly boosting production to supply autonomous vehicle test fleets. Luminar |
| Jan 15, 2018 | Pony.ai raises $112 million Series A for autonomous cars | Baidu and Google self-driving alum team up to transform transportation
We've solved for our ability to work remotely - thanks to computers and smartphones. Now we're solving for our ability to shorten our commute from home to work -- thanks... |
| Sep 6, 2017 | Google’s Street View cars are now giant, mobile 3D scanners | reader comments 47 with 34 posters participating
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| May 22, 2017 | Scan this leaders’ list from the growing world of LiDAR startups | LiDAR — yes, it sounds like a tool that any professional journalist covering politicians should carry with them. Unfortunately for political reporters everywhere, LiDAR doesn’t detect fibs. Instead, it stands for Light Detection and Ranging... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Udacity adds robotics and digital marketing Nanodegree programs, 21 new hiring partners | Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing variants of its popular Nanodegrees — an effort to expand its corpus of 21st century skills-based courses. In add... |
| Oct 10, 2016 | Autonomous cars by 2021, claims Ford | Ford CEO Mark Fields says the next decade will be defined by the automation of vehicles.
Ford intends to produce high-volume fully-autonomous vehicles by 2021.
According to Mark Fields, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, the next deca... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Ford’s self-driving car is … totally normal | I don’t own a car. Living in New York, I don’t even have a license. But on Monday Ford’s autonomous car took me for a ten-minute ride on the calm streets of Dearborn, Michigan, where the 113-year-old motor company has spent more than a cent... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Ford’s self-driving car is … totally normal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I don’t own a car. Living in New York, I don’t ev... |
| Sep 12, 2016 | Watch us ride inside Ford’s self-driving car | Ford’s mass market self-driving cars may be five years away, but the company has invited us to ride inside one of its prototype autonomous vehicles today. Today, as in, right now, at Ford’s headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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| Sep 12, 2016 | Watch us ride inside Ford’s self-driving car | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ford’s mass market self-driving cars may be five ... |
| Aug 22, 2016 | Velodyne LiDAR Receives $150M Investment | Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., a Morgan, Hill, Calif.-based developer of Light, Detection and Ranging, or LiDAR technology, received a $150m investment.
Co-investors included Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] and Baidu [Nasdaq:BIDU].
The company intends t... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | Ford Says It Will Have Self-Driving Cars Within Five Years | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ask five auto executives to predict when we can expect to see self-driving cars make their commercial debut, and you’ll likely hear five different answers. Even though it’s an... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Ford will make autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021 | Ford will mass-produce autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021, Ford chief executive Mark Fields said today at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California.
An investment in Velodyne LiDAR for autonomous vehi... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Ford And Baidu Invest $150 Million In Self-Driving Tech Developer Velodyne LiDAR | Jelani James, Tech Times 16 August 2016, 04:08 pm
Ford Motor and Chinese search company — and Uber China investor — Baidu have teamed up to invest $150 million in Silicon Valley's Velodyne LiDAR — a move that will likely become commonplace ... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Velodyne LiDAR Grabs $150M |
MORGAN HILL, CA, Velodyne LiDAR today announced the completion of a combined $150 million investment from co-investors Ford Motor Company and China's leading search engine company Baidu.
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| Aug 16, 2016 | Ford will make autonomous vehicles without steering wheels by 2021 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ford will mass-produce autonomous vehicles withou... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Cruise’s Kyle Vogt will speak about self-driving cars at Disrupt SF | A few months ago, many people learned about San Francisco-based startup Cruise Automation for the first time. After raising around $19 million and quietly building sensors for self-driving cars, the company got acquired by General Motors. S... |
| Jun 11, 2016 | Investment opportunities in the autonomous vehicle space | Rob Toews Contributor
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| Mar 11, 2016 | GM buys self-driving car kit startup Cruise, plans to use tech to make driverless cars | General Motors (GM) announced today it plans to snap up Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based startup making sensors that turn regular vehicles into ones that can drive themselves, for an undisclosed sum.
The move is part of a big bet fo... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | Report: Google and Audi develop Android in-car system | The announcement excepted to come at CES next week, will let Google take on Apple's iOS in the Car
Apple and Google are such fierce rivals, it seems, that whenever one of them decides to get in on some new piece of technology, be it smartph... |
| May 14, 2013 | Consumers are ready for driverless cars | While 57% would use on themselves, only 46% would let their kids get in one
A few months ago I wrote about some of the most interesting gadgets to come out of the Internet of Things, a network of devices that are connected via sensors to ma... |
| Feb 8, 2013 | The coolest gadgets from The Internet of Things | The Internet of Things makes everyday appliances and objects smarter and more efficient
After the Consumer Electronics Show in January, there was a lot of buzz about a new, very fast growing, and potentially very profitable, space that had ... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Buckle Up, California: Governor Jerry Brown Signs State Law Permitting Self-Driving Cars | For people who live and work around Silicon Valley, sightings of self-driving cars have become pretty common — especially on the roads and highways near the Mountain View, California headquarters of Google, which has been championing the te... |
| Prototype Tesla Model S with potential next gen fully-autonomous Autopilot hardware and LiDAR spotted in California | A Tesla Model S test vehicle with a new suite of sensors has been spotted in the San Francisco Bay Area last night, as reported by a Redditor on the Tesla forum.
The vehicle appears to be equipped with LiDAR sensors on the side mirrors, a n... |
| The world's youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is 'doomed' | Austin Russell, the founder and CEO of the self-driving-car tech startup Luminar, is the youngest billionaire. Luminar This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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