{"id":239915,"date":"2026-06-29T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-lidar-system-maps-location-speed-and-material-properties-in-a-single-measurement"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:09:07","slug":"new-lidar-system-maps-location-speed-and-material-properties-in-a-single-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/new-lidar-system-maps-location-speed-and-material-properties-in-a-single-measurement","title":{"rendered":"New lidar system maps location, speed and material properties in a single measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-lidar-system-maps-location-speed-and-material-properties-in-a-single-measurement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new kind of lidar system that simultaneously measures the location, speed and material properties of objects in a scene. This type of information could be useful for applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and remote sensing.<\/p>\n<p>Lidar uses laser pulses to measure distances and create highly detailed 3D maps of objects and terrain. However, most commercial lidar systems, such as those used in autonomous cars, primarily measure distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough some emerging lidar technologies can also measure velocity, real-world perception often requires understanding an object\u2019s surface as well,\u201d said Dongyu Du from the University of Toronto in Canada. \u201cOur new system uses a single measurement at each scanned point to capture millimeter-accurate distance, velocity and surface material while using eye-safe laser power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new kind of lidar system that simultaneously measures the location, speed and material properties of objects in a scene. This type of information could be useful for applications such as robotics, autonomous driving and remote sensing. Lidar uses laser pulses to measure distances and create highly detailed 3D maps of objects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239915","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}