Abstract: Autonomous navigation has become a topic of immense interest in robotics in recent years. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) can perceive the environment in 3-D by creating the point cloud ...

Stirrups, Pap smears, prenatal checks: At her busy office at Duke Women’s Health in Durham, NC, OB-GYN Anne Ford’s work with female patients of all ages usually takes place from the waist down. But ...

Abstract: SLAM technology plays a crucial role in indoor mapping and localization. A common challenge in indoor environments is the “double-sided mapping issue”, where closely positioned walls, doors, ...

A single ostrich egg equals dozens of regular eggs. Add freezing temperatures, and the challenge becomes something else entirely. This video documents the attempt from start to finish. The result ...

Nearly every time we get into a car, we interact with a dynamic digital twin of the world - a map. The first iteration of digital maps was static and two-dimensional. Just think back to the early days ...

After submitting triple the required 107,000 signatures for a ballot initiative ahead of Thursday’s deadline, “the map is frozen,” according to Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not ...