More iRobot LADAR details

iRobot’s new hometown paper, the Bedford Minuteman, profiles the company’s new laser alliance with Advanced Scientific Concepts at this link. New details:Lasting only 20 nanoseconds, the lasers cannot be seen by standard cameras or by night vision, making them “very stealthy,” Stettner said. The LADAR takes only one shot, but when the light comes back to the camera, it is sampled 20 times to render a 3-D video image. “These robots can use this kind of vision system to negotiate the world,” Stet
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