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Next Generation Shoe Scanning System for Security Checkpoints
Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc., a specialist in the development of cutting edge threat detection technologies, launched its new SS1 Shoe-Scanner. The PRT Shoe Scanner is a floor-mounted 3D imaging system that uses harmless... -
Micro-CT Uncovers Secrets of Medicine's Mysterious Ivory Manikins
Advanced imaging techniques have offered a revealing glimpse inside small ivory anatomical sculptures thought to be used by doctors four centuries ago. Researchers using micro-CT successfully identified the material composition... -
Baumer VeriSens Vision Sensors Control Universal Robots
The new smart VeriSens vision sensors XF900 and XC900 control the collaborating robots (cobots) of Universal Robots within only a few minutes of setting up. The robot-compatible vision sensors are mounted directly on the cobot... -
High-Speed Thermography in Laser High-Temperature Capillary Gap Brazing
Laser processes are highly dynamic thermally induced processes that cannot be detected with the naked eye. High-speed visual cameras that are often used are not capable of visualising the heat flow in the component. A contacting... -
Real-time Quality Inspection of Adhesive Beads with uEye LE Board Level Cameras
In crash tests, vehicles with a high adhesive content usually perform best. This is because the parts to be bonded are not negatively affected during bonding. Welding generates heat, which can influence the materials used and... -
Solar on Farmland: Cogenerating electricity alongside crops
A team of engineers, agronomists and economists at Purdue University’s Center for Sustainable Food, Energy and Water Systems (SFEWS), supported by the National Science Foundation, are developing novel photovoltaic (PV)... -
Studying Spiders with a Scanning Electron Microscope
Independent, amateur arachnologist Jeremy Poole began studying spiders in 1995, and early in 2016 he started compiling stunning SEM images along the way. Gradually perfecting his technique since then he has been lucky enough to...
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Simplified Data Processing with Drone-based Lidar
Professionals who work in construction, engineering, surveying, or land development have probably either experienced or considered the awesome power of drone-based lidar to improve workflows. As technology transforms these industries, professionals... -
Advances in Fluorescence Microscopy
“I’m terrified of having my head cut open. While surgery doesn’t frighten me, brain surgery really does. There’s a reason that people say, ‘at least it’s not brain surgery.’ Turns out this saying makes me... -
Perovskites Benefit X-ray, Laser and Other Applications of Light Technologies
Perovskites are mainly known for what they bring to the field of solar cells. Researchers from IMO-IMOMEC, an associated laboratory of imec at the University of Hasselt, and colleagues from KU Leuven, UGent and UAntwerpen, are tuning... -
Machine Vision Improves Ice Cream Production
One of Romania’s leading ice cream producers implemented an automated vision solution that can detect badly shaped, broken or stitched-together ice creams and facilitate their fast removal from the production line. With more than 10... -
Components with Strength and Thermal Stability for Autonomous Vehicles
Imagine this: a car traveling at night along a winding country road. No headlights. No hands on the steering wheel. A recipe for disaster? In the future, it might not be, with Light Detection and Ranging systems (lidar) guiding the way. The... -
Laser Measurement: Cheaper is more expensive in the long run
For any application, a focused laser beam should live up to previously defined specifications. But for medical technology, precise adherence to the parameters is of even greater importance. Both for regulatory and ethical reasons, the laser beam... -
FMCW: The future of lidar
Lidar holds the promise of making autonomous vehicles safer by improving navigation and enabling faster, better decisions. Lidar is an acronym for light detection and ranging, and, as its name implies, is a remote sensing method using laser light...
