Engineer Explains: Lidar
This is how robots see.

Chris, I remember pitching you an AI card when we were kids but I didn’t have the guts to make it a reality. I am surprised nobody has done it yet. The graphics cards are great at parallel processing but silicon dedicated to these type of operations would be better. Now I wonder just how much further along the industry would be if we’d done it!
Great article. I wrote about some of the key disruptive technologies that are already beginning to transform the world and the economy in big ways in an article called, “Get Ready for the Future: A High-Tech Video Time Capsule From My Future Self”. Some of the tech I touched on includes self-driving cars, drones, AI, augmented reality, 3d printing…