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Agilent Resolve Handheld Raman Systems Detect Hazardous Materials
Agilent Technologies announced that UK Border Force is now using Resolve, the company’s handheld Raman system, to detect bulk chemicals — whether benign, hazardous or illegal — through opaque packages and... -
Growlink Announces Beta Program for AI Solution
The use of artificial intelligence is the next big innovation in agricultural technology. Growlink Plant Health AI uses cloud machine learning, computer vision, sensor data and AI to track and predict plant health. Growlink... -
Trumpf Laser Generates Nanoparticles in Record Time
Nanoparticles can enhance the surfaces of many products, making eyeglass lenses more scratch-resistant, house paint more moisture-repellent and prostheses and implants more biocompatible with the human body. Manufacturing... -
Edmund Optics Acquires Veeco Ion Beam Sputtering System
Optical components supplier Edmund Optics has ordered the Spector Ion Beam Sputtering System from Veeco Instruments. The new capability is in support of Edmund Optics' portfolio of laser optics for infrared, visible and... -
Automated Centering of Lens Systems Increases Efficiency
At the Optatec trade show in Frankfurt, Germany, and for the first time ever in Europe, Trioptics presented robot-based automation solutions for loading the OptiCentric 100 centration inspection system and the ATS 100... -
International Microwave Symposium: Lake Shore discusses measuring S-parameters
Lake Shore Cryotronics will discuss a new approach to performing S-parameter measurements at cryogenic temperatures, Wednesday, June 13, at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in Philadelphia. The 11:30... -
OLED Could Boost Vertical Farm Effiency by 20%
The energy efficiency of vertical farms could soon be boosted by as much as 20%, thanks to a new system developed by a student from Brunel University London. vFarm, by design student Jonny Reader, 21, uses OLEDs –...
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Is This the Future of Automated Vision Inspection?
Contemporary vision systems are often located on production lines where products conveyed through them are automatically inspected for defects that are known to occur. One inspection system typically consists of multiple acquisition stations... -
Dueling Control Standards in Intelligent Lighting
In the article Smart Fixture Controls in Intelligent Lighting, we discussed the evolution of centralized lighting controls, especially as it relates to controlling LED luminaires. Because LED characteristics are increasingly tunable they can be... -
Light in Health and Medicine
Light technologies are changing not only the way we live, but also how well we live. In recent research, light technologies including holograms, digital camera technology, spectroscopy and optical fiber is being used in new ways in neurology,... -
Industrial Vision Gets Polarized
In many industrial applications where visual inspection can be challenging due to low contrast or highly reflective imaging conditions, polarized sensors can help to uncover hidden material properties and provide visual clarity over standard... -
Hyperspectral Imaging Applications in Food and Packaging
Hyperspectral imaging combines infrared spectroscopy with machine vision to produce images which can be colour coded according to the chemical composition of the objects being imaged. Its ability to identify differences in the chemical composition... -
Smart Fixture Controls in Intelligent Lighting
The days of the simple dimmer switch being thought of as lighting control are long gone. LED technology now enables total control of solid-state lighting characteristics, including light intensity, color temperature, hue, power consumption, and... -
Virtual Prototypes Speed Time to Market for Solid-State Lidar
Lidar is quickly becoming an enabling feature for the autonomous vehicles market. In fact, many believe lidar is the most important optical technology in the race toward mainstream self-driving cars. But not all self-driving vehicles are fully...
