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The Grueling Robot Race That Launched the Self-Driving Car

August 4, 2017

On March 13, 2004, a gaggle of engineers and a few thousand spectators congregated outside a California dive bar to watch…

New Sensor System Helps Tracking ISIS Explosives

August 2, 2017

A new use for a bomb-detecting technology: a system which identifies the dangerous opioid fentanyl from a distance using a laser…

Airborne Laser Spectroscopy System Can Map Atmospheric Gases

July 31, 2017

An experimental instrument that combines precision laser spectroscopy and a mobile airborne reflector to map atmospheric gas concentrations could lead to…

Continental trials autonomous robo taxi

July 24, 2017

Continental is using its corporate expertise in automation, new mobility concepts, and electrification to develop solutions for future urban transport. Conti…

Wireless sensing technologies to boost the oil and gas pipeline monitoring sector

July 10, 2017

The need to manage the serviceability and stability of an ageing pipeline infrastructure is driving the adoption of smart sensors in…

Wireless laser tracker uses controller-free technology – Canadian Metalworking

June 27, 2017

Automated Precision Inc. has introduced the OT2 Core portable wireless laser tracker that utilizes wireless and controller-free technology. Based on the company’s…

Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system – Phys.Org

June 27, 2017

Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR—whose name originated as a combination of “light” and “radar”—capitalized on the…

Keeping old planes in the air with Laser Scanning – Advanced Manufacturing

June 23, 2017

Reverse engineering tricks with lasers allow designers to resurrect old aircraft designs quickly and efficiently Your father’s Oldsmobile may be long…