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  • LADAR for inline inspection

    LADAR for inline inspection

    API’s 9D LADAR for Automotive In-line Inspection  Executive Summary  API’s recently introduced Dynamic 9D LADAR System with an API 6DoF Radian Laser Tracker can directly support the Automotive Body-in-white (BIW) market and other large dimensional non-contact inspection projects. This solution improves on current Laser Radar offerings in speed, accuracy, flexibility, portability, and repeatability.  Problem Statement  […]

  • 7 Pop Culture Robots We’d Like to Re-Calibrate

    7 Pop Culture Robots We’d Like to Re-Calibrate

    Going back as far as the works of Plato and Homer, moving statues made of gold and bronze marked some of the earliest recorded robots in human art. In literature, television, movies, comic books, and more over the centuries, robots and androids (a term popularized by Hadaly in Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s The Future Eve […]