Together with the German Industrial IT Center (CIIT), Hilscher has entered into a strategic partnership in Germany's first science-to-business center for industrial automation. The company will set up a new location with three employees in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia. The start of the cooperation between CIIT and Hilscher is planned for the middle of the year.
Basler AG has released the audited annual report for fiscal year 2020 today. In a declining market environment characterized by Covid-19 in 2020, the group‘s sales increased to Euro 170.5 million (previous year: Euro 162.0 million). Incoming orders amounted to Euro 181.6 million, and were significantly higher than the previous year’s level of Euro 166.5 million.
Transaction will advance the commercial opportunities in personal health, medtech and beyond
On April 14, 2021, the robotics, vision and motion control industry trade associations will merge to form the new Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
MINSTED resolves fluorescent molecules with resolution at the nanometer scale.
Atik Cameras signs multiple new contracts with leading global PCR manufacturers
First atomic-scale observations of how nanocrystals lose their light-producing efficiency.
Fraunhofer IAF starts project QuoAlA on AlGaAs Bragg reflection waveguides
Jenoptik has placed a promissory note loan in the amount of 400 million euros on the capital market. The additional funds are intended to enable the optics and photonics group to make acquisitions and investments in photonics.
More than 40,000 optical elements from 17 different vendors available in the portal
Stemmer Imaging clearly felt the effects of the Corona pandemic in fiscal 2020. The second quarter was hit the hardest. Subsequently, the business recovered. In the end, however, a negative operating result and a drop in sales of almost 13 percent remained.
The optomechanical accelerometer could be used as a portable, high-accuracy reference device.
Review: Laser World of Photonics China 2021 & Vision China, Shanghai, China
Omron has signed a new distribution agreement with Onrobot, a Danish manufacturer of gripper tools for collaborative robot applications (cobots).
Manz: From the laboratory to the fully integrated production line
Directional and polarized emissions from an organic LED without external optical elements.
Mobile laser scanning technology for large-scale surveying of structural integrity
A novel photonic interference effect could pave the way to large-scale controllable quantum systems.
The BMBF research project "Tasteful" combines tracer-based sorting with object recognition and artificial intelligence (AI). Two companies, two universities and a Fraunhofer Institute are joining forces to make plastics recycling more efficient by distinguishing types of plastic such as PET according to additional criteria.
New 3D printer from Trumpf uses second laser to double productivity
Tofmotion is participating in the Ligate project, which is funded by the European research and innovation program "Horizon 2020". The public-private consortium aims to promote the use of high-performance computing (HPC) in drug development.
New approach for compact, low noise mmWave generation using THz frequency combs.
Physik Instrumente (PI) has acquired all shares in the Japanese company Precision Granite W Co. Ltd. (PGW). The acquisition was completed on February 25, 2021.
OPAs with solid-state beam steering can reduce the cost and size
Structured light with more controllable degrees-of-freedom offers versatile applications.
The EMVA is holding its annual Business Conference purely virtually this year, making it a "Special Edition 2021". Originally, it was to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It will now be taking place there from May 12 to 14, 2022.
‘Made in France’ program provides support for Lynred’s small-pixel-pitch SWIR detectors
A new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat.
1st Technology Transfer Experiments, participation in Demonstrator Program
First technique to exploit the tunable symmetry of 2D materials for nonlinear optical applications.
Datalogic buys the Italian sensor manufacturer Micro Detectors for 37 million euros. With its 200 employees, it becomes part of the subsidiary Datalogic S.r.l. The previous owner was the industrial holding Finmasi Group.
Senswork, an expert in machine vision, opens its Innovation Lab in Munich, where it researches solutions for optical inspection using deep learning and ai.
