Iselin Bratz A Cyvl AI-based sensor system on top of a truck in Somerville in October 2025.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping every industry across the globe, but can it fix potholes?

Cambridge is looking to find out. The city in June started using a system developed by Cyvl AI, a Somerville startup whose product scans roads and finds sections that look likely to need work.

Cyvl’s system is centered on a 20-pound mechanism that can be mounted on the top of a car or pulled behind a bike. It is equipped with a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor and cameras. The LIDAR sensor uses hundreds of small laser beams, not viewable to the human eye, at about 2 million pulses per second in every direction, to build a 3D replica of its surroundings, similar to Google Street View.

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