Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 6, 20185m 51s
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Show Notes
You can’t see the bunny, but the picosecond laser certainly can. In a lab at Stanford, engineers have set up a weird contraption, hiding a toy bunny behind a T-shaped wall. And their complex system of computation and rapidly firing lasers can see around that corner. So, too, could the self-driving cars of the future.
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