- Researchers in South Korea have developed an ultra-small, ultra-thin LiDAR device that splits a single laser beam into 10,000 points covering an unprecedented 180-degree field of view.
- If you measure a bunch of points repeatedly over time, you get yourself a 3D model of that space, with information about distance, shape and relative speed, which can be used together with data streams from multi-point cameras, ultrasonic sensors and other systems to flesh out an autonomous system’s understanding of its environment.
- And that’s the potential here; metasurface-based depth mapping devices can be incredibly tiny and easily integrated into the design of a range of objects.
Tiny solid-state LiDAR device can 3D-map a full 180-degree field of view
