From Tai Chi-performing androids to rugged border patrol robots, the technological marvels represent China's rapid ...

Secretive tech firm raises $17 million in first key fundraising round as it targets commercialization of next-generation optical sensors.

LASER 2023: optics promises autonomy for surgical robots 29 Jun 2023 Full body scans of skin lesions, laser bone cutting, and craniotomies among the possibilities discussed at Munich technical forum.

Integra Optics president and CTO David Prescott in the fiber optics company's conference room at its hanger office at Albany Airport. Expand to read more Donna Abbott-Vlahos The move to automation ...

Conventional systems fail on transparent or dark objects because they distort or absorb light. goROBOT3D gets around this by using structured thermal imaging. It projects heat patterns onto a surface ...

Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate bacteria directly at the source, and exit without harming surrounding tissue.

One year after emerging from stealth mode Luminar, a maker of laser LiDAR sensors for self-driving vehicles led by 23-year-old optics whiz Austin Russell, says it’s ready to build an upgraded ...

Fiber optics are lighting the way to the darkest depths of the ocean. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Va., are building a battery-powered robot that can ...

Mecademic, a pioneer in ultra-compact, high-precision robotic solutions, has announced a major milestone: 15% of all robots shipped in the past 12 months have been deployed in optics and photonics ...

The International Robots & Vision Show (June 12-14, Rosemont, IL) saw the debut of cameras from Toshiba Teli, Point Grey, and Lumenera; Schott introduced new products in its fiber-optic and LED ...

A man from Angola was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March, and months later, a doctor in Florida cut out the cancer using transcontinental robotic telesurgery ...

Outlining which kinds of optics technologies might appear on platforms in the future, Erik Markveg from the Jena-based surgical robot maker AvateraMedical highlighted that today’s surgical robots ...