To help investigators and jurors scour for evidence at their leisure, police forces in the UK are increasing the use of laser scanners able to capture bloody and ravaged crime scenes and transform ...

Even with sophisticated cameras and laser scanners that can see all the way around a vehicle, autonomous vehicles have just as much trouble driving in thick fog as humans do. They could soon have an ...

No audio available for this content. A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the August 2023 issue of GPS World magazine. The VQ-840-G is a fully integrated ...

Meeting these evolving demands, Micro-Epsilon introduces a completely new generation of high-precision tools: the scanCONTROL 8500 series laser scanners. These high-performance 3D sensor solutions are ...

[Rik]’s Hexastorm laser scanner project originally used a discrete polygon mirror controller+motor module from Sharp to spin a prism. But the scanner head was a bit difficult to assemble and had a lot ...

The time: the late-1990s. The place: a Midwest automotive plant. Earl, a tug vehicle operator, is pulling a 60-foot long dolly train loaded with panel racks from an outside rack storage area, and is ...

For many centuries, the principle of triangulation - that is the geometric measurement using three-point relationships - has been relatively well known. In Europe, the land survey method established ...

SFU engineering science professor Marinko Sarunic has developed a high resolution retinal imaging scanner that will one day revolutionize eye care, helping ophthalmologists diagnose eye diseases ...

Dimensional and profile scanners gather two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) information about an object. They incorporate a wide range of scanning technologies and form factors. Two- and ...

When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That experience sparked a growing curiosity about how light interacts with matter, an ...