by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
It lasted all of 53 seconds, and reached a height of just 16 feet, but aerospace experts agreed that the maiden voyage of the Airbus Vahana flying car may have been the first step in a great leap that changes how humans get around. It’s not so much the Vahana’s...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Boy, it sure would make our job a lot easier if we were headquartered on HAT-P-7b: a super-hot planet 16x larger than Earth that sits in the Cygnus constellation about 1,100 light-years away. It rains sapphire and rubies on HAT-P-7b. We manufacture numerous precision...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
In March we had our first $1 million month. It was the culmination of recent growth that has included a hiring spree in which we brought 24 people, including 2 new engineers, into the IRD family. As it turns out, we aren’t an exception; U.S. manufacturing is on the...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Technology moves a thousand miles a minute, and it’s difficult to stay up to date. New words are added to the dictionary and new phrases constantly enter the lexicon. Two such phrases are computer vision and machine vision. They’re used interchangeably, but they...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
As a company that creates custom laser optics that are essential to LiDAR systems, we like to share the technology’s many novel applications as they arise. Among the most interesting ways LiDAR is being used is in the field of archaeology. In just a few years, it has...
