AEye, Inc., a global leader in software-defined lidar solutions, today announced the integration of its long-range Apollo lidar with the NVIDIA AGX DRIVE Thor™ automotive computing platform, to enable high-performance sensing and perception for next-generation physical AI systems. The integration combines AEye’s long-range, software-defined Apollo lidar with NVIDIA’s Thor centralized AI compute, delivering a scalable architecture for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, and intelligent mobility applications...

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Ancient Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan captured through advanced lidar technology. Credit: fdecomite / CC BY 2.0 Researchers recently used drones with special light-sensing tools, known as lidar, to discover two ancient Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan’s mountains. This is the first time in Central Asia that such advanced drone technology has been used to study high-altitude archaeological sites. Often used to map areas blocked by thick vegetation, lidar proved equally effective in capturing the rugged landscape of Uzbekistan’s mountains, providing a clear ...