{"id":29201,"date":"2016-08-22T05:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lidar-on-a-chip-should-be-1000-times-cheaper-and-scan-1000-times-faster-to-revolutionize-self-driving-cars-drones-and-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:18","slug":"lidar-on-a-chip-should-be-1000-times-cheaper-and-scan-1000-times-faster-to-revolutionize-self-driving-cars-drones-and-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lidar-on-a-chip-should-be-1000-times-cheaper-and-scan-1000-times-faster-to-revolutionize-self-driving-cars-drones-and-robots","title":{"rendered":"LIDAR on a chip should be 1000 times cheaper and scan 1000 times faster to revolutionize self-driving cars, drones, and robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lidar-on-a-chip-should-be-1000-times-cheaper-and-scan-1000-times-faster-to-revolutionize-self-driving-cars-drones-and-robots.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA and MIT are leading an effort to take what are now bulky expensive Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging (LIDAR) systems and make them small enough to fit on a microchip.<\/p>\n<p>LIDAR is one of the key parts of Google\u2019s self driving car.<\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s Photonic Microsystems Group is developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no moving parts, and could be mass-produced at a very low cost for use in self-driving cars, drones, and robots.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/08\/lidar-on-chip-should-be-1000-times.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/08\/lidar-on-chip-should-be...gfuture%29<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA and MIT are leading an effort to take what are now bulky expensive Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging (LIDAR) systems and make them small enough to fit on a microchip. LIDAR is one of the key parts of Google\u2019s self driving car. MIT\u2019s Photonic Microsystems Group is developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201","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=29201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60696,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions\/60696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}