Denso ADC (Long Beach, CA, USA) -- the US sales arm of Denso Wave -- has published a new guide to explain the basics behind the popularly used QR Code.

Researchers at the at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL; Cambridge, MA, USA) have developed a robot that uses Microsoft’s Kinect to navigate through its surroundings

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA, USA) have demonstrated the effectiveness of a blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patients.

Researchers from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA) have developed a novel means to perform digital video stabilization and rolling shutter correction using gyroscopes.

Researchers led by Professor Kenneth Shepard at Columbia University (New York, NY) aim to develop a novel two-dimensional high-frame-rate CMOS imager based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs).

Researchers at the SR2 Group (Laurel, MD, USA) have been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to enable them to develop a robotic system to automate the capture of 3-D images of insects.

A team of researchers at the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK) has developed image analysis software that can automatically distinguish plant roots from other materials found in soil.

According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) Quarterly Statistics, in 2011 sales of industrial robots will reach a peak level of approximately 150,000 units, representing an increase of around 30% over 2010.

Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland have developed an optical accessory that can turn an ordinary camera phone into a microscope.

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors in 2011 continued to push charge coupled device (CCD) sensors into a smaller, isolated section of the market. CMOS image sensors are growing on use in mobile electronics and emerging applications, shows analyst firm IHS.

A new CMOS image sensor from Sony layers back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing in place of supporting substrates in conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.

Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ, USA) is now accepting applications for their 2012 Higher Education Grant Program, which supports outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at non-profit colleges and universities.

Researchers at General Electric (Fairfield, CT, USA) have demonstrated that by doping the butterfly scales of Morpho butterflies with single-walled carbon nanotubes, they can create new highly-sensitive thermal imaging sensors.

Engineers at D3 Engineering (Rochester, NY, USA), New Scale Technologies (Victor, NY, USA) and Sunex (Carlsbad, CA, USA) have created a new OEM Smart Camera Developer's Kit.