UK-based aerospace, defense and security technology provider QinetiQ Group plc has acquired Redfern Integrated Optics Inc (RIO) of Santa Clara, CA, USA. Founded in 2000 in Australia before moving to San Francisco, CA, USA in 2003, RIO is ...
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International automotive supplier Continental will launch production this month of short range radar sensors for advanced driver assistance systems at its plant in Seguin, Texas. Expanding our manufacturing capacity takes us a step closer ...
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
Ford's first autonomous research vehicles, with protruding sensors and instruments, “kind of look[ed] like a science project” says Chris Attard, a Ford research engineer who works on their replacement. The new one, a Ford Fusion ...
Tags: Autonomous Research Car, protruding sensors and instruments, LIDAR
Police in Queensland Australia have reported to the media that they now have and are using a device called the Zebedee scanner—it's hand held and can be used to laser scan a crime scene in just a matter of minutes for creation of a 3D ...
Excelitas Technologies Corp of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized optoelectronics to OEMs, has announced the availability of an enhanced series of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) that provide high responsivity for ultra-low-light ...
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Gold Bullion Development Corp. (TSX-V: GBB) (OTCPINK: GBBFF) (the "Company" or "Gold Bullion") is providing an update on activities at the Granada Gold Property in Quebec with the Pre-Feasibility Study or ("PFS") anticipated in Q4 2013. ...
BMW and Continental have launched their collaboration into autonomous driving technology with the goal of making accident-free mobility a reality by 2020. The two German automotive powerhouses will work together on the program over the ...
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German carmaker BMW and automotive supplier Continental have collaborated to work on the development and introduction of freeway-grade highly automated driving system on European freeways. In January 2013, both firms have signed an ...
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Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France says that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology. The ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), along with its Lexus division, has unveiled its advanced active safety research vehicle for the first time at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, revealing the company’s ...
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Lidar controls and optimizes wind turbine 13 Jun 2012 "World first"claimed for nacelle-mounted system that measures wind,optimizes performance. Wind power:the laser can measure the whole wind-field in front of a turbine.Researchers ...
Tags: Wind Turbine, NREL, LiDAR, optics