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Lumotive’s New LCM Underpins Next-Gen Lidar
“The future happened yesterday” is an appropriate description of the rapid pace of development in automated-driving technology. The expression may be most accurate in sensor tech where,...

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inductive Non-Contact Position Sensor
Potential uses include MEMS accelerometers, vibration monitoring, and other precision motion control applications.

Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
AV Life After Argo AI
The recent shuttering of Argo AI, one of the autonomous-vehicle industry’s leading tech companies, by Ford and Volkswagen might come as a surprise to commuters in San Francisco and in Phoenix, Arizona. Those who...

Technology & Society Aerospace
Small But Mighty: Stratospheric Microballooons
A zero-emission reusable stratospheric balloon developed by Urban Sky for remote sensing could one day be used for real-time wildfire monitoring.

Briefs Imaging
High-Speed Camera Captures Signals Traveling Through Nerve Cells
Combining high-speed camera and interferometer technology enables the detection of electrical pulses travelling through nerve cells.

Briefs AR/AI
AI that Mimics the Human Eye
Researchers at University of Central Florida have developed an artificial intelligence device that mimics the retina of the eye.

R&D Medical
Device Diagnoses Eye Disorders
Researchers have developed an ophthalmological device that can be used to diagnose some degenerative eye disorders long before the onset of the first symptoms. In early clinical trials, the prototype was...

Application Briefs Imaging
Through-Wall Imaging System
Camero-Tech has launched the Xaver™ 1000, a new generation of the Camero Xaver™ product line.

Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
A Laser-Focused Approach to LiDAR
Traditional time-of-flight LiDAR has many drawbacks that make it difficult to use in many 3D vision applications.

Briefs Lighting Technology
Assembly for Simplified Hi-Res Flow Visualization
The assembly can simply be mounted in front of a camera to enable focusing schlieren imaging capability.

Briefs Imaging
Endoscope Uses Bendable GRIN Lens for 3D Microscopy
Researchers have created a flexible needle-like endoscopic imaging probe that can acquire 3D microscopic images of tissue.

Application Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Measuring Blood Glucose Levels with Lasers
DiaMonTech used the Ophir Pyrocam to measure and characterize all their laser developments.

Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Optical Modules
The Teledyne e2v Optimom 2M combines the latest innovations in imaging and optics into one turnkey imaging solution by mounting a proprietary image sensor onto a board with a fixed lens and optional Multi Focus lens technology.

R&D Medical
Pulsed MRI System Could Selectively Deliver Drugs to the Brain
Using an office-based human-sized version of this non-invasive device, it may prove possible to cure Alzheimer’s by delivering drugs and genes to specified tracts in the brain under real-time imaging guidance.

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Compact, Temperature-Tuned OFDR Laser
NASA has focused on OFDR, an alternative FBG interrogation technique based on laser interferometry.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Highly Sensitive, Mass Producible Organic Photodetectors
Incorporating new green-light absorbing transparent organic photodetectors into organic-silicon hybrid image sensors could be useful for applications such as light-based heart-rate monitoring, fingerprint recognition and devices that detect the presence of nearby objects

Articles Test & Measurement
Optical Strain for Precision Measurements and Certification
Optical strain is material independent and measures the response of the integrated system, so designers can get a measure of the true response and strength of their designs.

R&D Photonics/Optics
Tiny Optical Sensors Could End Hospital Bed Sores
Scientists have designed tiny smart bed sensors embedded in hospital mattresses could put an end to painful and potentially life-threatening pressure sores, thanks to new technology. The...

Briefs Medical
COVID-19 Test Uses Smartphone Cameras to Spot Virus RNA
Unlike other tests, this test gives an estimate of viral load or the number of virus particles in a sample, which can help doctors monitor the progression of a COVID-19 infection and estimate how contagious a patient might be.

Briefs Software
X-Ray Crack Detectability
The models allow users to optimize X-ray radiography setups, for the detection of crack and crack-like flaws, to penetrate various materials to show internal structures of parts.

Briefs Imaging
Sensor Breakthrough Paves the Way for a Map of the World Under Earth’s Surface
The sensor works by detecting variations in microgravity using the principles of quantum physics, which is based on manipulating nature at the sub-molecular level.

Briefs Imaging
Let’s Get Small: New Argonne Method Greatly Improves X-Ray Nanotomography Resolution
A group of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has created a new method for improving the resolution of hard X-ray nanotomography.

Briefs Photonics/Optics
Making Measurements with a Fine-Toothed Comb
Enter the frequency comb, a Nobel Prize-winning device and the result of decades of research from NIST and others. The comb generates a billion pulses of light per second, which bounce back and forth inside an optical cavity.

Briefs Materials
Helmet Made of Magnetic Metamaterials Could Improve Brain Scans
It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to the Future, yet this gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a...

Briefs Imaging
Sensor Breakthrough Paves the Way for a Map of the World Under Earth’s Surface
The quantum gravity gradiometer was used to find a tunnel buried outdoors in real-world conditions one meter below the ground surface.

Briefs Medical
New Technology Could Make Biopsies a Thing of the Past
MediSCAPE is a highspeed 3D microscope capable of capturing images of tissue structures that could guide surgeons to navigate tumors and their boundaries without needing to remove tissues and wait for pathology results.

Briefs Lighting Technology
Upside-Down Design Expands Wide-Spectrum Super-Camera Abilities
Plasmonics is a technology that essentially traps the energy of light in groups of electrons oscillating together on a metal surface.

NASA Spinoff Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webb Telescope Mirror Tech Improves Eye Surgery on Earth
Eye surgery patients on Earth are benefiting from early research on the NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s enormous mirrors.

News Data Acquisition
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...

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