
Quantum technologies on the rise
World of Quantum 2025 in Munich recorded impressive growth with 160 exhibitors from 16 countries and over 22,000 visitors from 41 countries.

World of Quantum 2025 in Munich recorded impressive growth with 160 exhibitors from 16 countries and over 22,000 visitors from 41 countries.

The first Twyn user meeting hosted by Visometry in Darmstadt at the end of June focused on exchanges between users and experts.

Spherea has acquired the US subsidiary of the Konrad Group

CCS has announced the relocation of its Taiwan office from Taipei to Zhubei City.

The company is relocating its Drive Technology Center (DTC) West to Haan-Gruiten after more than 50 years in Langenfeld.

Christian Zeidlhack joined Wittenstein as a member of the Executive Board and Chief Market Officer (CMO) on July 1, 2025.

Zebra Technologies and Clearview Imaging have opened the Industrial Automation Center of Excellence in Oxfordshire, UK.

Neura Robotics, HD Hyundai Samho, and HD Hyundai Robotics have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and test special robots for shipbuilding.

Hexagon plans to spin off its Asset Lifecycle Intelligence and Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial divisions into a new company called Octave.

The global machine vision market recorded revenues of $5.6 billion in 2024, representing a decline of 3.9% compared to 2023.

The company was the exclusive industry partner of the 12th International Graduate Summer School on Biophotonics, which took place from June 7 to 14, 2025, on the Swedish island of Ven.

The Lapp Group has acquired Brazilian connection technology specialist Eurocabos Materiais Elétricos

Ray Penny takes the helm at Mitutoyo Europe and unveils ambitious growth plans

Siemens has completed the acquisition of ebm-papst's industrial drive technology business and is integrating it under the “Mechatronic Systems” brand.

Stéphane Chômienne has been appointed Regional Sales Director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France.

Siemens is now part of the MVTec Technology Partner Program

Interference patterns between overlapping laser beams could transmit encoded information over thousands of feet through chaotic environments.

A new transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks.

New tool offers precise insight on viral proteins, brain disease markers and semiconductors.

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The European automotive industry continues to invest heavily in the automation of its production, as preliminary figures from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) show.

Structured light offers new modalities for light-matter interaction, communications and sensing.

The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.

This time, with two additional categories, “SMEs” and “Artificial Intelligence,” the selection was even larger than usual. But now they have been chosen: the machine vision products of the year 2025.

Tiny structures made of lithium niobate can half the wavelength of incident light.

Over 170 B2B meetings were organized among the 105 mostly high-ranking participants.

Hexagon acquires the rights to Conet Communications' UCRS software to enhance its offerings for law enforcement agencies.

Cableforce, a specialist in circular connectors based in Dongguan City, will be integrated into the company's global network as a wholly owned subsidiary.

New approach offers a reliable solution for displays, optical data storage, and information encryption.

Machine learning makes laser processes more precise, more cost-effective and more efficient.

Europe now accounts for only two percent of global printed circuit board production and ten percent of electronics manufacturing.

The Supervisory Board of Sick has extended the contract of CEO Dr. Mats Gökstorp by five years.

SEW-Eurodrive delivered its three millionth DRN.. motor in Germany in spring 2025, with over 14 million worldwide.

Mitsubishi Electric and European gear manufacturer Tramec have entered into a strategic partnership to develop modern gear motors based on the highly efficient EM-A series synchronous motors.

A photonic nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering.