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ST Robotics Increases Robotics Production to Meet COVID-19 Demand
ST Robotics, a pioneer of laboratory bench-top robot arms, is ramping up its shipments of four, five and six-axis industrial robots, in response to the recent increase in demand from COVID-19. Mesa Labs in Montana is using... -
Solar Decathlon Postpones 2020 Build Challenge
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon postponed its 2020 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge from June 2020 to April 16-18, 2021. The event, originally scheduled to be part of the 2020 Smithsonian... -
CCD Image Sensor Technology Plays Key Role in COVID-19 Diagnostics
Teledyne is supplying high performance charged coupled devices (CCDs) for COVID-19 diagnostic scientific instruments. These highly sensitive image sensors are used for low-light imaging applications such as microscopy and other... -
Post COVID-19 Era: How thermal imaging paves the way to a safer world
“For sure, the COVID-19 outbreak will have a big impact on the thermal detector and imager markets and industrial landscape at different levels” asserts Dimitrios Damianos, PhD, Technology and Market... -
Fight Against COVID-19 using Piezo Ceramics
Testing of blood, saliva, urine or tissue samples from humans or animals to diagnose and detect diseases, like COVID-19, at an early stage, requires systems that are fast, easy to use, and widely available. As a leader in piezo... -
USC-Olympus Partnership in Multiscale Bioimaging Furthers Precision Medicine
Olympus has long been committed to promoting awareness of cancer screening, prevention and testing. In this spirit, the company recently forged a partnership with the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine at... -
CCD Image Sensor Technology Plays Key Role in COVID-19 Diagnostics
Teledyne is supplying high performance charged coupled devices (CCDs) for COVID-19 diagnostic scientific instruments. These highly sensitive image sensors are used for low-light imaging applications such as microscopy and other...
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Fast Solution Switcher Benefits Epilepsy Encephalopathy Research
When properly implemented, a piezo-actuated device called a solution switcher allows researchers to investigate fast (millisecond) signaling dynamics involving the binding of agonist molecules like glutamate to cell membrane receptors. In this... -
Nano-Structured Anti-Reflective Surfaces for Materials Processing
Anti-reflective (AR) thin film coatings are critical in optical applications where light throughput must be maximized, or in situations when back-reflections would be detrimental. Traditional AR coatings are made of one or more layers of... -
COVID-19 Drives Innovation in the Photonics Industry
In just three months the world has changed. Mid-January now seems like eons ago, when the first COVID-19 case was reported outside of China and it continued its sweep across the globe. The impact on people´s lives and livelihoods has been... -
Applications for Laser Ranging Technologies
Lidar (light detection and ranging) is becoming a key technology in autonomous driving, process automation, and defense and security applications. In comparison to passive optical technologies where the reflection of ambient light is used to... -
Industrial Thermal Cameras for Pandemic Fever Detection
With the current pandemic, everyone is trying to do their very best to contribute to global containment and prevention efforts. This situation creates a need to monitor and control access to febrile (fevered) individuals in what we have come to... -
Failure is Not an Option in Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
In today´s fast-moving world, real time need for, and spending on, defense readiness and Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities is ever increasing. For the fiscal year 2020 alone, estimates are that defense ISR... -
Manufacturing High-Power LEDs for Agricultural Use
The Coretec Group is a silicon material developer that is introducing materials to create next-generation quantum dots for LEDs, which have benefits for use in technical agriculture. The advantage of quantum dot LEDs in agriculture is that they...
