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The Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to automotive-grade thermal imaging sensors enabling enhanced advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and night vision; active stereo 3D depth cameras supporting robotic perception and spatial understanding; laser-based sensing technologies enabling intelligent molt...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to simulation-trained contact skills enabling industrial robots to perform complex physical interactions and manipulation tasks; hybrid laser-DLP 3D printing systems combining additive technologies for high-speed photopolymer manufacturing; industrial ...

The Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to software-defined vision sensor technology integrating pixel-level computing for low-power, real-time edge perception; flexible direct-conversion X-ray detector technology enabling conformal digital radiography for medical imaging and applications requiring adaptabl...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) enabling pallet and trolley transportation across dynamic intralogistics environments; compact 6-axis robotic systems supporting modular and flexible laboratory automation; autonomous agricultural unmanned ground vehi...

Multimodal sensor fusion is an advanced perception technology that combines data from multiple sensors, including cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonic sensors, thermal cameras, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), to give robots and autonomous systems a more accurate, reliable, and comprehensive understanding of their environment. It overcomes the l...

The Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to integrated safety power management IC (PMIC) technology with wheel-speed sensor interfaces enabling enhanced automotive safety, power management, and vehicle motion monitoring; precision digital current sensing with integrated signal processing for accurate, intell...

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to cobot-enabled vacuum gripping technology supporting flexible pick-and-place automation across dynamic manufacturing environments; automated build-job depowdering systems improving metal additive manufacturing powder handling and post-processing effi...

This study examines the technology landscape, commercialization progress, and future growth opportunities of wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials, with a primary focus on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and gallium oxide (Ga₂O₃) for power and RF electronics. It evaluates how these materials enable higher efficiency, greater powe...

The Sensor Technology Opportunity Engine provides profiles of innovations related to triple-lens multi-baseline depth sensing technology enabling micro-scale 3D perception for close-range robotics and precision automation; switchless solid-state fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogation technology for high-precision, field-deployable structural healt...