{"id":233581,"date":"2026-03-18T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-4d-vision-chip-can-help-robots-track-distance-and-speed-at-once"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:10:58","slug":"new-4d-vision-chip-can-help-robots-track-distance-and-speed-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/new-4d-vision-chip-can-help-robots-track-distance-and-speed-at-once","title":{"rendered":"New 4D vision chip can help robots track distance and speed at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQCOJGxm-4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Pointcloud GmbH in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, have packed advanced 4D sensing technology \u2014 once too bulky for everyday use \u2014 onto a single silicon chip.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a 4D imaging sensor that maps the physical world while simultaneously clocking the speed of every object it sees. It offers a low-cost, high-speed vision solution for everything from autonomous drones to future smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis result demonstrates the capabilities of FMCW LiDAR FPA sensors as enablers of ubiquitous, low-cost, compact coherent 4D imaging cameras,\u201d the researchers wrote in the study paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Pointcloud GmbH in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, have packed advanced 4D sensing technology \u2014 once too bulky for everyday use \u2014 onto a single silicon chip. It\u2019s a 4D imaging sensor that maps the physical world while simultaneously clocking the speed of every object it sees. It offers a low-cost, high-speed vision solution for everything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1965,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}