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U.S. national laboratories will see an infusion of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act, amounting to $1.5 billion to fund facility upgrades, modernized infrastructure, and deferred maintenance projects.

According to U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, the funding represents one of the largest ever investments in national laboratory infrastructure. Specifically, the funding includes $294 million for "Basic Energy Sciences" and $303 million for "High Energy Physics," both of which contain multiple laser- and synchrotron-related projects. Among the projects receiving funding are the Linac Coherent Light Source-II High Energy at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, receiving $96 million; the Advanced Light Source Upgrade at...

Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA completed the acquisition of ArianeGroup’s 63% majority stake in CILAS, a French company specializing in lasers for military applications. The acquisition was carried out through a joint company created for the purpose called HMS Laser, equally owned by Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA. CILAS designs, develops, produces, and sells laser products and optical solutions for military and civil applications.
Safran Electronics & Defense and MBDA completed the acquisition of ArianeGroup’s 63% majority stake in CILAS, a French company specializing in lasers for military applications. Courtesy of Safran Group. BOULDER, Colo. — Quantum technology company ColdQuanta closed a...

Edge AI semiconductor company Ambarella and digital transformation and product engineering services provider elnfochips will collaborate to expand design and development services for AI camera products based on Ambarella’s CVflow Edge AI system-on-chip (SoC) platform.

eInfochips already offers end-to-end design and development services based on Ambarella’s CVflow Edge AI SoC families, and, according to the companies, the newly formalized relationship will benefit from eInfochips’ engineering experience and resources to support the growth of AI IoT applications.

These applications include perception for the robotics, access control, commercial, security, video conferencing, and health care markets.

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Simple device, measuring 15x15x20cm, includes heating structures and fluorescence camera as detector.

While 3D imaging in machine vision has been applied in key use cases for many years, use of the technology has recently grown and expanded, making it increasingly common in a wider range of applications. The best practices that can help to ensure a successful 3D imaging project involve component specification and project implementation. However, it’s important to start with an overview of 3D imaging and a review of the methodologies available in the marketplace.

A useful way to think about 3D sensing and imaging systems is to understand that in virtually all of these components the 3D information is derived by processing one or more 2D images, often with associated unique and very specific illumination strategies. Put more...

Losses widen as the startup firm works to scale manufacturing at sites in Mexico and Thailand.