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... Read More
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MIRPHAB Offers Funds and Prototyping for Developing MIR Devices
MIRPHAB, a European Commission project to create a pilot line to fabricate mid-infrared (MIR) sensors by 2020, is accepting proposals from companies that want to develop and prototype new MIR devices that operate in... -
Sofradir Elected to Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders
Sofradir, a global developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared (IR) detectors for military, space, scientific and industrial applications, has announced its election to the Board of Stakeholders (BoS) at Photonics21, the... -
Suometry OmniPolar Camera Wins CES 2019 Innovation Award
The OmniPolar camera enables true real-time stereoscopic stitching and capture. It can generate both high-quality 3D 360° videos as well as depth maps in real-time with computationally light processing and can support... -
Veeco and Allos Semiconductors' Breakthrough on MicroLED Production
Veeco Instruments Inc. and ALLOS Semiconductors GmbH announced today the completion of another phase of their mutual effort to provide the industry with leading GaN-on-Silicon epiwafer technology for microLED... -
Consumer Video Surveillance Market to Top $1 Billion in 2018, IHS Markit Says
Sales revenue from Arlo, Nest and other standalone network video-surveillance cameras reached $966 million globally in 2017 and is estimated to grow to $1.1 billion by the end of 2018. The United States was by far the largest... -
Marktech Optoelectronics Joins AIM Photonics
Marktech Optoelectronics, Inc., a privately held and veteran-owned leading designer and manufacturer of standard and custom optoelectronics components and assemblies, including UV, visible, near-infrared (NIR), and short... -
RoboSense Lidar System Named CES 2019 Innovation Awards Nominee
RoboSense the world´s leading autonomous driving Lidar perception solution provider, today announced that it has been named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree for... View All
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MEMS Components May Help Diagnose Middle Ear Infections
The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS developed a unique ultrasound transducer using its MEMS technology. OtoNexus Medical Technologies, Inc. - a Seattle, WA-based startup company - is using this technology in an innovative... -
European Quantum Flagship Initiative Kicked Off in Vienna
The Quantum Flagship, a €1-billion, 10-year initiative, has launched in Vienna, Austria, on 29 October2018. The overall initiative will involve the quantum community at large, with more than 5000 European researchers in academia and industry... -
Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Images Deeper Into Tissue
A recently developed technique known as light-sheet fluorescence microscopy has led to many biological discoveries by allowing researchers to create 3D images of tissue, even live animal embryos, using fluorescent tags. Now, researchers report the... -
EU Project UNIQORN Advances Next-Gen Quantum Communication Systems
The multidisciplinary project UNIQORN, which kicked off this month, will develop under the participation of VPIphotonics quantum technology for the mass market. Quantum communication systems, mostly found in research laboratories, will be squeezed... -
OpenSuperQ: Joining forces for a European quantum computer
Ten international partners from academia and industry will collaborate in a unique research endeavour to build a high-performance quantum computer, available to a broad community of users. The project, OpenSuperQ, coordinated by Saarland University... -
Random, Transistor Laser Manipulated at Nanoscale
In the last half-century, laser technology has grown into a multi-billion-dollar global industry and used in everything from optical-disk drives and barcode scanners to surgical and welding equipment. Not to mention... -
Publication of First Known English Translation of Paper by Walter Schottky
SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3) today publishes an open-access English translation of Walter H. Schottky's key 1918 Annalen der Physik article "Über spontane Stromschwankungen in... View All
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Floating Solar Photovoltaic Installation on Agricultural Land
Ciel & Terre USA, innovators in floating solar power systems, today announced the completion of two new floating solar projects. A municipal floating solar project in Walden, Colorado, and a private floating solar project for Salad Cosmo in... -
High Speed Video Camera Measures Material Undergoing Shear
Specialised Imaging has published a new application report that describes how its Kirana ultra-high-speed video camera has been used by a leading material science laboratory to measure the movement of an aluminium sample undergoing adiabatic shear... -
AI-Powered System Automates Quality-Control Process in Textile Industry
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) recently developed an intelligent fabric defect detection system, called “WiseEye,” which leverages advanced technologies including artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning in the... -
Using Drones to Inspect Solar Energy Systems
Infrared Testing, Inc. (ITI) is pairing its thermal imaging expertise with cutting-edge drone technology to identify issues affecting the performance of solar energy systems. Drones equipped with infrared cameras are revolutionizing how solar... -
3D Surface Inspection Solution from Isra Vision
Isra Vision, the TecDAX company for industrial image processing (machine vision) and a supplier of surface-inspection solutions for web materials and 3D machine vision applications, provides customized 3D high-end solutions for advanced surface... -
KUKA Robot Dispenses Tests
The ViscoTec Customer & Innovation Center (CIC) which opened in September 2017 has now one more highlight. A new KUKA robot for precise customer pretests complements the technical laboratory equipment. ViscoTec is the dosing specialist from... -
Formnext 2018: Fraunhofer ILT shows laser powder bed fusion
Additive manufacturing processes are booming, with the rapid growth of the Formnext trade fair being a clear indication. At Formnext 2018, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT will be showing a new process in which the component in the... View All
