Toposens, a manufacturer of safety equipment, announces the launch of a 3D ultrasonic collision avoidance sensor for automotive and industrial vehicles. Called ECHO ONE, the product is based on ...

Fully autonomous cars may be a decade away, but the sensors they'll need for collision avoidance -- radar, cameras, ultrasound and lidar -- have become a big business already. Global sales of ...

The time: the late-1990s. The place: a Midwest automotive plant. Earl, a tug vehicle operator, is pulling a 60-foot long dolly train loaded with panel racks from an outside rack storage area, and is ...

Collision sensors mechanically detect when robot arms encounter obstructions. They absorb the crash energy and quickly stop the robot to prevent costly damage to robot arms and tooling. One shop found ...