ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 20, 2023 — Luminar Technologies co-founder and CTO Jason Eichenholz has been selected to be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for his work with lidar. Eichenholz has 83 U.S. patents on types of lidar, solid-state lasers, displays, and photonic devices, and is currently working with the automotive industry on autonomous vehicles. Eichenholz is also a courtesy faculty member at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics and Photonics. Jason Eichenholz. Courtesy of the

BOLTON, Mass., Dec. 14, 2023 — Headwall Photonics, a manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging systems and OEM optical spectroscopy devices for applications in remote sensing and industrial machine vision, has appointed Mark Willingham as CEO. Mark Willingham. Courtesy of Headwall...

TIANJIN, China, Dec. 5, 2023 — Using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) as the light-sensing element, researchers from Tianjin University demonstrated non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging at two infrared (IR) wavelengths, 1560 nm and 1997 nm. NLOS systems...

PITTSFIELD, Mass., Dec. 4, 2023 — Photonics Media, the leading publisher in the optics and photonics industry for more than 60 years, unveiled revamped websites for Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, and Vision Spectra on Monday, Dec. 4. The new sites feature all the content visitors...

MONROVIA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2023 — SiLC Technologies Inc. has secured $25 million in funding to expand production to support designs for its Eyeonic vision solutions. The additional funding also supports continued product development, to enable the company to pursue further...

OXFORDSHIRE, England, Nov. 10, 2023 — Oxford Metrics has entered into an agreement to acquire machine vision software and systems developer Industrial Vision Systems Ltd. (IVS) in a deal worth £8.1 million ($9.9 million). IVS provides noncontact vision systems — including...

NATICK, Mass., Nov. 2, 2023 — Cognex continues to feel the effects of soft demand for capital equipment, the machine vision industry leader said this week, as the company released financial results for its 2023 third quarter. The company pointed to slow economic recovery in...

HEFEI, China, Oct. 19, 2023 — Edge detection, the process of outlining objects in a scene by identifying areas where changes in color or intensity signal boundaries between objects, is vital in computer vision applications such as object recognition, image segmentation, and...

MUNICH, Oct. 13, 2023 — High-quality medical imaging from multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) could be used to diagnose and evaluate a range of diseases, including breast cancer, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, IBD, and many more. However, the length of time...

MONTREAL, Oct. 11, 2023 — Microsoft and photogrammetry software developer SimActive have partnered to demonstrate a cloud solution for real-time data processing, analysis, and decision-making for global defense and intelligence. Per the agreement, the companies will use...

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 10, 2023 — Virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) devices are used to access applications in a growing number of fields, from entertainment to health care to manufacturing to tourism. These applications are transforming the way that people perceive and...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 2, 2023 — A burgeoning growth in machine learning applications is occurring alongside shrinking computing resources. As computers approach the limits of their power according to Moore’s law, the need to design platforms that support the computational...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 28, 2023 — Oculi, developer of a smart, programmable vision sensor, took home $1 million in follow-on funding and Company of the Year honors as the winner of Luminate’s sixth cohort. Awardees, including a three-way tie for the Distinguished Graduate...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Sept. 26, 2023 — Sentient Vision Systems, a developer of passive modular optical sensors, has completed live demonstrations of its AI-enabled ViDAR (visual detection and ranging) payload deployed on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) provided by Edge Autonomy. The...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Sept. 15, 2023 — Integrated photonics-based optical networks developer Astrape Networks secured a pre-seed funding round of €1.6 million ($1.7 million) to develop sustainable data centers by eliminating multiple electrical-optical conversions during use. The...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 12, 2023 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a detection system that allows home energy auditors to see air leaking from a building in real time with the help of a camera. This could provide more...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2023 — Lidar security solutions provider Quanergy and Teledyne FLIR have partnered to develop an integrated solution that addresses security challenges facing critical infrastructure environments. The collaborators will fuse Quanergy’s Q-Track 3D...

MONTREAL, Sept. 9, 2023 — Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has awarded advanced vision systems provider Immervision a $5.7 million contract from for the design and development of panoramic imaging components and systems. Immervision’s technology offerings...

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, Sept. 8, 2023 — Tower Semiconductor and data center optics company InnoLight Technology will develop multigeneration high-speed optical transceivers based on Tower’s silicon photonics process platform. The partnership is expected to enable cutting-edge...

MILTON KEYNES, England, Sept. 7, 2023 — Dynamic holographic technology developer Envisics completed its series C funding round, raising more than $100 million. The round saw investment from M&G Investments and Van Tuyl Companies. In March, Envisics said that the first phase had raised...

POHANG, South Korea, Sept. 5, 2023 — Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed optical sensor technology to aid patients with limited mobility during their rehabilitation. The sensor integrates computer vision technology to help track muscle...

NATICK, Mass., Aug. 30, 2023 — Cognex will acquire Yokohama, Japan-based Moritex Corp. in a deal worth ¥40 billion ($274.1 million). The deal, Cognex said, supports its penetration into what the company called the high-growth machine vision market in Japan. Moritex develops...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22, 2023 — A research team led by professor Aydogan Ozcan at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) developed a deep-learning-based approach to designing spatially incoherent, diffractive optical processors. The method provides a way to build...

NATICK, Mass., Aug. 21, 2023 — Machine vision company Cognex reported its financial results this month, posting $242 million in revenue for the second quarter of the year, a 12% decline compared to the same quarter last year. The company attributed this decline to ongoing...

AHRENSBURG, Germany, Aug. 18, 2023 — Basler, a leading manufacturer of cameras and accessories, reported that incoming orders decreased to €94 million ($102 million) in the first six months of 2023, a decrease of 41% from the same period last year, while sales for the same period...