The two companies intend to accelerate the development of future automated driving technologies for passenger cars. A central component of this is the optimal access to new technologies and global competencies.
A European consortium is developing a new process that uses sunlight and LEDs to turn carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into clean energy products like methane gas and methanol liquid fuel.
Kuka and Ford Otosan in Turkey have signed a new framework agreement to supply more than 700 robots for Ford's next-generation electric and connected commercial vehicle projects at Ford's Kocaeli plants. The contract continues the partnership between the two companies that has lasted for more than 20 years.
The automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has signed an agreement to acquire all shares in Melior Motion GmbH. With the acquisition of the supplier of precision gears for robotics, the Schaeffler Group is expanding the portfolio in the field of robotics in its Industrial division.
The provider of high power and high brightness industrial blue lasers has raised additional growth capital at a valuation of approximately 350 million dollars. The company has also brought on experienced technology executive, Brian Faircloth, as chief operating officer, and promoted Andrew Dodd to vice president of global sales to boost commercialization efforts for its revolutionary industrial blue laser technology.
The photonic assembly service provider Phix builds on Nanoscribe’s high-performance 3D printing solution with alignment capabilities to offer 3D-printed standard lensed fiber arrays.
A simple but powerful approach uses very sensitive photon pairs and holds promise for applications that can achieve high measurement precisions.
Quantum technologies are a focus of research worldwide, and an indispensable tool for exploring underlying phenomena used in imaging research for the scientific development of quantum communication systems. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has now approved two major instrumentation initiatives to address such applications.
Michael Weyrich has taken over the chairmanship of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA). He succeeds Atilla Bilgic, who was chairman of the GMA from 2018 to 2021.
Managing director of Mahr Group to represent the European technology platform for photonics for the next years.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen and Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik from Ditzingen have signed a cooperation agreement. They want to collaborate more closely in the field of laser material deposition and accelerate the transfer of the technology to industry.
New device is based on upconversion transition associated with triplet–triplet annihilation that doubles the energy of excited states.
Photometrics, a division of Teledyne Technologies, engaged in a strategic partnership with Swiss image compression solutions provider Dotphoton that will enable robust storage of the large amounts of images generated by scientific imaging using integrated combinations of products from the two companies.
The new sensor – made by KIST researchers – can detect near-infrared light, as well as previously undetectable visible light, opening up new opportunities in various fields.
For the 17th time in a row, the independent Top Employers Institute from Amsterdam has awarded Lenze the best employer in Germany as part of an extensive certification process. The automation company based in Hamelin feels that the certificate confirms that it can offer its employees good working conditions.
Hartmut Schubert was appointed by the management board of 3D-Micromac AG to the position of chief technology officer effective January 2022. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic management of the company’s technology division.
Seven universities and research institutions as well as Vanguard Automation GmbH employ a measurement-based quantum computing approach in the BMBF project PhotonQ.
The next Hanover Fair will be held from May 30th to June 2nd. With this, Deutsche Messe AG wants to react to the current pandemic situation and create planning security for exhibitors and visitors.
Next Scan Technology (NST), which was acquired in 2015, now operates as Scanlab BV and was integrated into the Scanlab Group based in Puchheim at the beginning of the year. The group also takes over marketing, sales and customer service.
New optical device can handle 24-bit RBG and 8-bit IR images simultaneously and independently.
With Covid-19, tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. A national network of eight companies and non-university research institutions wants to counter this with the help of photonics.
The Strathclyde-based Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) is to receive £6.5m over the next five years from the Scottish Government.
The Supervisory Board of Lapp Holding appointed Dr. Christoph Hiller (56) appointed to the Management Board for Sales & Marketing. He takes over the area of responsibility from Andreas Lapp, CEO of Lapp Holding AG, who had taken over this task on an interim basis.
The countdown is running: submission of abstracts for the 12th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2022] closes on January 24, 2022.
Hesai and Lumentum launched a partnership to combine their lidar and VCSEL expertise on the development of hybrid solid-state directional lidar solutions for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).
Schneider Electric scores well in the area of environment, social affairs and corporate governance (ESG or Environmental Social Governance). This emerges from the 2021 ratings, which were awarded by independent and renowned experts for corporate sustainability.
With their new instrument, University of California researchers achieve a large field of view up to 25 square millimeters to provide subcellular resolution of multiple areas of the brain.
An electron beam was steered through the optical near field of a photonic circuit, to allow the electrons to interact with the enhanced light.
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the Khronos Group have formed a Khronos Working Group to develop an open, royalty-free API standard for camera system runtime control in the embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive and scientific markets. Now calling on all Khronos members to participate.
The international automotive supplier is selling its subsidiaries Leoni Fiber Optics GmbH, Leoni Fiber Optics Inc., and J-Plasma GmbH to a consortium of buyers to pursue its focus in the automotive and commercial vehicle industries.
This year, SPS will take place in Nuremberg from 08 - 10.11.2022 and thus two weeks earlier than in previous years. In times of the pandemic, this gives the entire industry corresponding planning security for the leading trade fair for smart and digital automation.
Issue 1/2022 – February / March – is online and has been mailed. It includes feature articles from Cailabs, Coherent, Hamamatsu Photonics, Ingeneric, iPronics, Joya Team, Solmates, and more companies and institutions. On the cover: Shenzhen JPT Opto-Electronics.
Focuslight Technologies, after its 2017 acquisition of Limo GmbH, has fully integrated its sales and marketing teams and streamlined its manufacturing facilities, better positioning the organization for expanding its global presence in the industries they serve.
A&B KMG Service, a specialist in coordinate measuring technology, has taken over the distribution of Polyscan Surround 3D scanners from the Canadian manufacturer Polyrix for Germany and other European countries with immediate effect. The company has also opened a demo center in Ergolding near Landshut in Germany.
At the beginning of 2022, laser scanner manufacturer Scanlab added two new members to its management team. One left at the same time. In addition to long-time managing director Georg Hofner, the management board now includes Dirk Thomas and Christian Sonner.
