by Carl Borsani | Jul 23, 2019 | Industry News
Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take up a considerable amount of space. Not so with Voyant Photonics, which has created a lidar system that you really could...
by Carl Borsani | Jul 8, 2019 | Industry News
A California-based electrical engineer has been found guilty of attempting to export sensitive military electronics to China and could face more than two centuries behind bars. Yi-Chi Shih, 64—a part-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles...
by Carl Borsani | Jun 12, 2019 | Industry News
On April 23, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) tested a fiber-optic laser at the White Sands Test Range in New Mexico that successfully shot down“multiple air-launched missiles in flight.” The Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHIELD), pictured here,...
by Carl Borsani | Mar 27, 2019 | Industry News
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) are the principal set-aside programs for small business participation in federal research and development funding, yet the requirements for administering and managing these programs...
by Carl Borsani | Jan 10, 2019 | Industry News
Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need...
by Carl Borsani | Jan 10, 2019 | Industry News
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses in the USSR and other nations. In response, engineers at places like US defense giant Lockheed Martin’s...