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Your destination for advances in imaging systems, machine vision, visualization software, and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) technologies. Design engineers can access news, technical briefs, applications, and product developments.

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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks such as setting a table.
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Briefs: Imaging
This program provides a relative navigation capability for spacecraft, remotely operated terrestrial vehicles, and machine vision.
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News: Medical
Novel biosensors allow the simultaneous study of both neuronal activity and transcription factor dynamics.
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News: Imaging
A new tool for medical professionals may help shed light on tumors.
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News: Medical
Simon Fraser University researchers will use their pioneering imaging technology – called Mango, for its bright color – to develop coronavirus testing kits.
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News: Medical
Researchers have tested a new imaging method to understand the brain as an individual develops Alzheimer's disease.
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Blog: Photonics/Optics
An empty airport tells you more than you might think.
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INSIDER: Materials
The future’s getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date...
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INSIDER: Software
Stanford University researchers created an inverse design codebase called SPINS that can help researchers explore different design methodologies to find...
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INSIDER: Imaging
A research team has used the Molecular Foundry, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, to create miniature lasers. These lasers are stable and work continuously. What...
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INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Low-Power Sealed Laser Luxinar (Kingston Upon Hull, UK) has introduced the SR 08s for marking, scribing and kiss cutting applications requiring average rather than peak power. The new low-power sealed CO2 laser source targets...
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Products: Test & Measurement
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules.
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Articles: Imaging
The last thing you probably do when a fly buzzes toward you is marvel at its graceful wing and body kinematics. But that’s exactly what researchers at Cornell University’s Itai Cohen Group do...
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Products: Test & Measurement
Photodetectors, ultrafast lasers, energy sensors, and more.
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Briefs: Imaging
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The nonlinear camera captures high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
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Articles: Imaging
Xilinx is now applying AI to the in-cabin environment.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
With the recent boom in touch-based, polymer display substrates must be fingerprint-resistant.
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Facility Focus: Aerospace
This NASA center hosts the world’s greatest collection of wind tunnels and flight simulation facilities
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Briefs: Automotive
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Landers to small bodies such as comets and asteroids can use this program to estimate the terrain richness of the previously unmapped small body.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Rugged tablets from Teguar Corp. can be used to monitor manufacturing operations.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
Technology used to search for extraterrestrial life can characterize radioactive material.
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Briefs: Materials
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
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