Stellantis and the iPhone assembler Foxconn have agreed a deal to work together on in-car information and entertainment technology, in a sign of the accelerating convergence between the tech and automotive sectors.
To enable safe and affordable autonomous vehicles, the automotive industry needs lidar systems that are around the size of a wallet, cost one hundred dollars, and can see targets at long distances with high resolution. With the support of DARPA, our team at Kyber Photonics, in Lexington, Mass., is advancing the next generation of lidar sensors by developing a new solid-state, lidar-on-a-chip architecture that was recently demonstrated at MIT.
