Driving at night might be a scary challenge for a new driver, but with hours of practice it soon becomes second nature. For self-driving cars, however, practice may not be enough because the lidar ...

Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to. Transparent and ...

New high-resolution camera detects fine and semi-transparent objects, paving the way for improved inspection processes, surgical and agricultural robots Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; ...

Pacer Components offers a sensor which is available with three different optical technologies, infrared, visible red and VCSEL in the same common package. This gives the design engineer tremendous ...

Developed specifically for the detection of diffuse materials, OPB609 series reflective-object sensors are unfocused, suiting them for detection of paper, labels, or any material with a matte finish.