Machine vision systems are serving increasingly crucial roles in life and business. They enable self-driving cars, make robots more versatile, and unlock new levels of reliability in manufacturing and ...

Touch is the sense that brings us into direct contact with reality, revealing shape, texture, and resistance. Designing soft sensors to mimic biological fingertips facilitates natural haptic ...

Programmable position sensor benefits: eliminate the need for a programmable process monitor in some applications, adjust in seconds for deviations or tolerances in ...

The company is tapping the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum to bring out the best qualities of more common ...

AutomationDirect has added ifm fail-safe inductive sensors featuring two OSSD outputs that can be connected to a safety relay for safety applications requiring the detection of metal objects. These ...

CMOS image sensors have become a cornerstone of modern imaging, leveraging the advantages of low power consumption, high speed, and scalability inherent in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor ...

While sensors and low power actuators occupy the lowliest level of an automation system, they often require a disproportionate amount of time and attention. Historically, each sensor added entailed ...