Topic: sensor technology
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DJI's New Action Camera Widens Lead Over GoPro
The DJI Osmo Action 6 introduces a variable aperture (f/2.0 to f/4.0), enabling creative control over background blur and low-light performance, a feature that challenges competitors like GoPro. It features a new 1/1.1-inch square sensor for flexible video cropping without quality loss and suppor...
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Zoox Expands Autonomous Vehicle Testing to Washington DC
Zoox, an Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, is expanding its testing to Washington D.C., its first East Coast deployment, starting with manual mapping and transitioning to autonomous tests with safety operators. The expansion to Washington D.C. was chosen for its dense urban environment and...
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DJI Mini 5 Pro Unveiled: 1-Inch Sensor & Record Battery Life
The DJI Mini 5 Pro features a one-inch-type sensor for improved imaging and maintains a sub-250-gram weight, enhancing both quality and regulatory accessibility. It offers extended flight times of up to 36 minutes with the standard battery and 52 minutes with an optional extended battery, alongsi...
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Apple Reinvents the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max from Scratch
The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max are Apple's premium flagship models, setting benchmarks in performance, photography, and innovation. Pricing starts at $1,099 for the Pro and $1,199 for the Pro Max, with preorders opening this Friday and an official launch on September 19. Key upgrades include a red...
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Waymo Proposes Pothole Repair Partnerships with Cities
Waymo is piloting a program to share its fleet's sensor-collected pothole data with city transportation departments via the Waze for Cities platform, aiming to improve road safety and position itself as a civic partner. The data, collected automatically for vehicle safety, is integrated into a ci...
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Waymo Takes on Highways: Is It Ready for the Challenge?
Waymo is expanding its robotaxi service to include highway routes in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, addressing previous customer complaints about longer travel times and extending airport access in San Jose. The company has rigorously tested its autonomous technology for highway driving...
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Tesla robotaxi promises clash with reality
Tesla's robotaxi program is expanding to new cities and has driven 380,000 miles across six cities, but this total mileage is less than 10% of Waymo's weekly mileage, with a shrinking number of unsupervised vehicles and investor concerns about an "alarming decline." The company faces regulatory h...
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How 3D Body Scans and Sensors Are Ending Blown Calls
The 2026 World Cup will deploy advanced technology including digital twins,full-body computer scans of every player,allowing officials to simulate exact positions for precise offside and penalty calls. The system combines upgraded Hawk-Eye optical tracking with 16 cameras and a Kinexon ball senso...
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Nuro secures driverless testing permit before Uber robotaxi launch
California DMV has amended Nuro's driverless testing permit to include the Lucid Gravity SUV, a key step toward launching Uber's premium robotaxi service, though driverless testing is not expected to begin until later in 2026. Nuro still needs additional regulatory approvals from the California P...
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Canon EOS R Camera Launch Dates & Specs for 2026
Canon's 2026 camera roadmap indicates a sequential launch starting with the EOS R8 V and R6 V in late April, followed by the EOS R8 Mark II in May, and the EOS R7 Mark II before mid-June. The EOS R8 V's specifications are uncertain, potentially sharing hardware with its predecessor in a new body ...
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Private Firm to Test Space Weapon in Self-Funded Demo
Defense contractors are competing for the Golden Dome missile shield program, a trillion-dollar initiative, and assert that the foundational technologies for an effective homeland defense system already exist within the U.S. industrial base. The main challenge is integrating components into a sea...
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GM's 'Eyes-Off' Driving: What Happens When Cars Go AI?
General Motors will launch an "eyes-off" driving system in 2028 for the Cadillac Escalade IQ, enabling drivers on mapped highways to engage in non-driving activities while the vehicle handles safety and prompts for control resumption. The system results from a collaboration between GM's Super Cru...
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Sky-Hunters: Bats Snatch Birds Mid-Flight
Greater noctule bats, Europe's largest bat species, were studied using specialized lightweight sensors to uncover how they hunt birds, overcoming technical challenges to monitor their flight without interference. Researchers developed miniaturized tracking tags weighing about four grams, which re...
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GM's Hands-Free Driving System Arrives in 2028
General Motors plans to launch a fully automated driving system by 2028, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ, allowing drivers to take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. The system builds on GM's Super Cruise technology and integrates expertise from Cruise, utilizing lidar, radar...
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Zoox Launches Public Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas
Zoox has launched the first commercial driverless taxi service in Las Vegas using purpose-built autonomous vehicles without traditional controls like pedals or steering wheels. The service operates on the Las Vegas Strip with limited stops and features vehicles equipped with sensors, a 45 mph spe...
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Bose sleep chief’s startup SOND exits stealth with $7M
SOND, a Boston-based startup founded by two MIT graduates, has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding to launch Dreambuds, a closed-loop in-ear system that uses 12 physiological sensors and a cloud-based AI coach to personalize sleep audio in real time. The AI coach can be activated...
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DAIMON Robotics Aims to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
DAIMON Robotics unveiled the Daimon-Infinity dataset, the largest omni-modal robotic collection for physical AI, featuring high-resolution tactile sensing for tasks from home laundry to factory assembly, with support from partners including Google DeepMind and Northwestern University. The company...
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Waymo launches passenger rides with new Ojai robotaxi
Waymo is launching its sixth-generation autonomous vehicle, the Zeekr RT minivan rebranded as the Ojai, offering free rides to select passengers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix to gather data before transitioning to paid services. The Ojai replaces the discontinued Jaguar I-Pace, featu...
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This Startup's Racing to Build Self-Driving Car Software
HyprLabs, a new startup led by former Zoox co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay, is emerging from stealth with a modest team and funding to develop autonomous vehicle software, aiming to eventually create its own proprietary robots. The company's initial product, Hyprdrive, is a software platform that rep...
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Lucid Unveils Its Own Autonomous Vehicle Technology
Lucid Motors is partnering with Nvidia to develop Level 4 self-driving technology for consumer vehicles, aiming to deliver the first fully autonomous experience for personal car owners by 2026. The feasibility of consumer-owned autonomous vehicles is increasing as hardware costs like lidar and co...
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