Modularizing

There also seems to be an interesting trend towards modularizing the LiDAR - either by separating the active optical engine from the passive optics or scanning mechanism, or the transmit and receive engines.

Modular robot main Modular robots are a new breed of robots that are designed to increase the utilization of robots by modularizing their architecture.

Rather the X in XML stands for extensible and the W3C is modularizing the entire specification and opening it up to independent extensions.