Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

Ultrasonic sensors use sound waves above 20 kHz to measure the distance from the sensor to a specified target. The sensor transmits and receives sound via a ceramic transducer that acts like a ...

Sensors are the eyes and ears of a vehicle, and in the age of ADAS and autonomous driving, accurate automotive sensing is ...

Tesla announced removing ultrasonic sensors from its vehicles in October last year, promising that Tesla Vision would offer the same functionality. Nevertheless, despite some tentative moves, newer ...

Ultrasonic time-of-flight (ToF) sensors are embedding more powerful on-chip processors with higher computational capability to run a wide range of application algorithms while offloading the system ...

Tesla moves to reliance solely on cameras for Autopilot operation, dropping ultrasonic sensors and radar. The automaker will leave some features disabled in new cars until cameras can replace the ...

LONDON, March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation in industrial processing and home applications, the demand for sensors and transducers has ...

Tesla has spent years arguing that a camera‑centric approach to driver assistance can match or surpass the performance of rivals that lean on ultrasonic sensors and radar. The company’s latest ...

Tesla loves streamlining things but sometimes makes decisions that are certain to affect owners without offering a backup solution. While dropping ultrasonic sensors, Tesla said Vision would provide ...

Ultrasonics or ultrasound is a radar-like system that uses ultrasonic signals at frequencies above those typical for human hearing, usually above 16 to 20 kHz. The 40- to 70-kHz range tends to be most ...

Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors open up new application areas and use cases for proximity sensing and presence detection technologies, and these sensors can add valuable functionalities and intelligence ...

Photoacoustic imaging, a technique for examining living materials through the use of laser light and ultrasonic sound waves, has many potential applications in medicine because of its ability to show ...