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Plus One Robotics, a provider of advanced AI vision software and solutions for robotic parcel handling, has raised $50 million in series C funding. With the funding, Plus One said it plans to...

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...

CEA-Leti reported the optimization of a hybrid direct-bonding, self-assembly process with the potential to increase the alignment accuracy as well as fabrication throughput of die-to-wafer (D2W)...

QED Technologies has appointed Michael Mohammadi, current vice president of global sales and business development at Thorlabs, president and CEO. Mohammadi, who will assume the position next week,...

An increasingly wide range of applications need to be able to function in harsh environments, not only on space missions but also here on Earth, in particle detectors, for example. It is important to...

In machine vision, deep learning enables an increasing number of applications that were not possible before. Moreover, the performance of existing applications can also be significantly improved....

To make e-mobility a real success, production processes must be profitable, efficient and reproduceable. Laser technology is an indispensable manufacturing tool and is used throughout the entire...

Traditional machine vison systems have relied on frame-based methods, which represent motion by capturing a number of still frames each second. For modern computer-enabled vision in industrial...

GigE, short for gigabit Ethernet, refers to a standard for high-speed Ethernet communication, capable of transmitting data at rates of up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), or 1000 megabits per second...

A photovoltaic cell, commonly known as a solar cell, is a semiconductor device that directly converts light energy into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The photovoltaic effect is...

An opaque projector is a device used for enlarging and projecting images from opaque objects such as printed pages, photographs, or three-dimensional objects onto a screen or surface. Unlike a...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a single flat lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light in the same spot and in...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for some of the highlights from Optifab 2017, as distributors and buyers from all over the world met in the photonics industry hub of Rochester, New...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we introduce you to Drake Anthony, aka styropyro. Drake, 25, has been building his own lasers since he was 12 years old. He's got quite the following on his...