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New Mexico-based 3D printing solutions provider, Optomec, has released an independent study showing the validity of automated laser cladding for gas turbine engine repairs.

The study, conducted by Terry VanderWert, a 40-year veteran in laser process technologies, was commissioned by Optomec and concludes the automated metal additive manufacturing solution could provide a 180% ROI over the manual processes used today.

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Prophesee, a Paris-based startup that has pioneered neuromorphic vision systems, presented this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco a new, stacked event-based vision sensor jointly developed with Sony Corp.

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There’s something inherently inefficient about the way video captures motion today. Cameras capture frame after frame at regular intervals, but most of the pixels in those frames don’t change from one to the other, and whatever is moving in those frames is only captured episodically.

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Prophesee S.A. and Sony announce they have jointly developed a stacked Event-based vision sensor with the industry’s smallest 4.86μm pixel size and the industry’s highest 124dB (or more) HDR performance

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Image processing is a demanding task and one reason is that it normally involves processing all of the pixels in an image. Multiple frames must be processed when dealing with video streams. Determining what changes from one frame to another is useful in detecting objects and other alterations, but it requires lots of horsepower and bandwidth to do that.

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This Eco-Friendly Jewelry Line Uses Gold And Silver Mined From Discarded Phones 

This Eco-Friendly Jewelry Line Uses Gold And Silver Mined From Discarded Phones 

New Mexico-based Optomec (www.optomec.com) — a privately owned global supplier of production-grade additive manufacturing equipment and software — has confirmed that its LENS Directed Energy Deposition (DED) 3-D printed metal system will be used to print bi-metallic rocket engine parts “that will go to the moon in 2024, thanks to a grant from NASA for additive-manufacturing research and education”

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Retailers reuse and recycle the way to increased growth