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Alain Servel

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Ficontec’s Machines Go to Work on Automotive Photonics

The automotive sector is undergoing two, maybe three major transitions at the same time: the electrification of the drive system, the implementation of automatic safety systems based on vicinity and hazard awareness, and ultimately the introduction of autonomous vehicles at various levels of transport. Near-term, sensing systems are being integrated in much greater numbers into…

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EVGroup-Delo Wafer-Level Optics Revolution In the Works

EVGroup and Delo will soon publish a paper on wafer-level optics manufacturing. The process involved could successfully demonstrate an excellent lens shape fidelity starting from the very first imprint, as well as excellent reliability, made possible by careful matching of materials and process. As a consequence, they can now provide their customers a working total…

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Nodar Stereo Camera Boosts AD Sense Range

A bicycle or pedestrian crossing the road, stopped vehicles, and debris are among the navigational challenges driverless autonomous vehicles must be able to sense and respond to, day or night, and in any weather condition. Software company Nodar is developing a camera-based solution they say provides better-than-lidar target identification, and at further distances. CEO and…

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AD Newsbites

California has suspended Cruise’s driverless-car permit, halting the GM self-driving car subsidiary’s robotaxi operations in San Francisco just months after it began. A human driver hit a pedestrian, knocking her into the path of a Cruise robotaxi which stopped overtop of the pedestrian, then decided the road was clear and started forward, dragging the woman…

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DVN Lidar Conference 2023 at Wiesbaden: Final Program

Day 1 · Wednesday, 29 November (Applications; Ecosystem) 11:30 Registration and light welcome lunch                 13:00 Opening of conference by DVN CEO & keynotesValeo / Benazouz Bradai (Director Innovation Autonomous Driving)Optica / Olga Raz (Director of Technology for Optics/Optical Systems) Session 1: Lidar Applications IStellantis, Torc Robotics, AEVA, Continental Session 2:  Lidar Applications IIZKW, Scantinel,…

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Lidar Business News Briefs

The German federal government and the Free State of Bavaria will provide Important Projects of Common European Interest funding for microelectronics and communication technologies to drive development of optoelectronic semiconductor technologies from AMS Osram in Regensburg. The company expects to receive more than €300m in public funding over the next five years, to enable the…

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DVN-L Interview: Ralf Muenster, SiLC VP Business Development & Marketing

Ralf J. Muenster is Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at SiLC. With over 20 years in high-tech business growth and commercialization, his past roles include Director at Texas Instruments’ CTO office and leadership positions at National Semiconductor, Micrel, and AMD. He founded a successful startup and conducted photonics research at UC Berkeley, and…

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Bosch Drops AV Lidar Sensor Development Efforts

Bosch has decided to halt their three-year-old work on AV lidar sensor development, after considering the complexity and time-to-market for the technology. The supplier will shift the resources that had been devoted to lidar research to other technologies such as radar. Bosch still views lidar technology as important for fully autonomous vehicles, and will continue…

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Special Report: Autosens ’23

Autosens Brussels, held on  19 to 21September, was a major autonomous-vehicle and sensor technology event. It brought together about 270 automotive industry experts, researchers and policy makers to discuss the latest advances and future challenges of self-driving systems. One of the main topics discussed at the conference was the integration of sensors into AVs. Participants…

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