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Velodyne Lidar's Sensors Enable Postmates Autonomous Delivery Rover
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced that Postmates has included Velodyne lidar technology in its self-driving rovers for short-distance deliveries, Postmates Serve. Equipped with Velodyne’s compact, powerful lidar sensor, Serve... -
Andor Zyla sCMOS Astronomy Cameras Capture Lunar Impacts
Impacts from near-Earth objects (NEOs), such as meteoroids, asteroids or comets, can be a threat to Earth, artificial satellites and spacecraft. It is therefore important to determine their size and assess how numerous they are.... -
Teledyne e2v Delivers CCD Sensors for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company, has completed a multi-million dollar project by delivering hundreds of CCD250 sensors for one of the world’s most powerful survey telescopes: the Large Synoptic Survey... -
VTM 2018: Jenoptik presents lidar expertise in Turin
The Jena, Germany-based technology company Jenoptik has experience in developing technologies for such high-performance lidar systems, including high-precision optical components, microoptics and diffractive optical elements... -
Foresight Vision System Installed in Automotive OEM Vehicle
Foresight Autonomous, a company specializing in automotive vision systems, has announced it has successfully delivered and installed its first QuadSight prototype system for evaluation by a European manufacturer of commercial... -
Teledyne Sensors Power Cameras on NASA's InSight Mission to Mars
Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in digital imaging, is pleased to participate in NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars by providing color CCD image sensors for both the Instrument Deployment... -
Improving Additive Manufacturing with Thermal Cameras
Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is revolutionizing manufacturing, because it uses computerized or digital models to generate simple parts and complex components, and adds material only where it is needed....
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Industrial Robots at Work
Advances in technology increase the application of industrial robots, resulting in tremendous market growth. Robots are more capable and easier to use than ever before. The evolutionary advances made in software make it easy to “teach”... -
Better Bonding Assured by Vision
Bonding materials with adhesives might appear to be a relatively straightforward manufacturing process. However, ensuring the reliability of the bonds that are formed between materials is of paramount importance, especially in the automotive and... -
Variable Filters Optimize Design of Spectrometer
As the result of a joint 1.3 million Euro Eurostars Optitune research project, design engineers at Edinburgh Instruments developed a novel grating-based fluorescence spectrometer whose performance has been enhanced by the use of linear... -
LEDs in Life Sciences and Medical Illumination
Traditionally life science and medical endoscopy have turned to the broadband light sources such as mercury, metal halide and xenon lamps to fulfill their demanding illumination requirements. With recent advances in light emitting diodes, these... -
Coatings for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & Mixed Reality
Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Mixed reality. What's the difference, and how do optical coatings fit in? Here we'll explore the specific optical coatings that may be used in this emerging technology, and some of the challenges they... -
Choosing Lasers for Holographic Applications
The single most important performance characteristic required when considering lasers for holographic applications is long coherence length, in addition to good power stability, wavelength accuracy and stability, and, above all, excellent... -
Sensors Map the Path to Fully Autonomous Vehicles
One of the important questions surrounding the deployment of new technologies in autonomous vehicles is which type of sensor, or sensor combination, will provide the optimum price and performance. The issue is complex because the sensors chosen to...
