This breakthrough 3D sensor gives robots true human-like vision

Using cutting-edge technology, this 3D sensor from Ouster offers human-like vision to robots, promising to dramatically alter ...

Guelph creating 3D digital map of street trees to help grow urban canopy

Mobile LiDAR-equipped trucks have been scanning streets in Guelph to create a detailed 3D "digital twin" of urban trees and ...
Wired

Kinect-carrying drone automatically builds 3D maps of rooms

Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...
SpaceNews

Vantor offers up-to-date imagery with WorldView 3D

Vantor WorldView 3D imagery shows changing water levels in the Hoover Dam. The image on the right was collected on June 28, 2026. Credit: Vantor SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor, the company previously known as ...
New Atlas

Touch-sensitive 3D maps guide the blind with spoken instructions

Getting around unfamiliar public spaces can be tough even with all your senses, but if you can't see where you're going it's downright intimidating. A new multi-sensory model promises a brighter ...
PC Magazine

Google Joins Others Getting on the 3D Map

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...
Interesting Engineering

MIT’s 6 mW chip lets tiny drones see and map their surroundings in real time

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.
CNET

Microsoft to drop 3D, plug-in need in Bing Maps

Microsoft is cleaning house at Bing, dropping one feature completely, while dropping the need for the company's Silverlight browser plug-in to use the other. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...