To make the iPhone as capable as it is, Apple equipped it with several sensors. One of these is the LiDAR scanner. LiDAR — short for Light Detection and Ranging — is a sensor that essentially measures ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes lidar is a "fool's errand." A former Tesla engineer, Eric Aguilar, cofounded an entire company to perfect it. His bet: all robots — whether vehicular or humanoid — will ...