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Mondo Robotics’ Beni has moved from a US$2.9 million crowdfunding campaign into shipping. What the follow-cam robot’s specification reveals about gimbal, optics, battery and accessory sourcing.
Read article →Photon Bridge points to external laser source yield as the bottleneck for integrated photonics, while LightCounting says pluggable modules remain the workhorse. Both are true — and that shapes what to stock.
Read article →Sub-4µm pixels, 28nm CMOS and in-pixel processing are moving single-photon detectors out of the lab. Why infrared specifications now need dark counts, jitter and coating data — not just detection efficiency.
Read article →Zooplus opened a third-party marketplace in Germany with 10,000 new products, M&S entered pet food, and petLENS brought real-time demand data. The channel is shifting — and compliance is the new gate.
Read article →A 2,000-unit force-controlled arm order, a dexterous hand playing piano in real time, and a joint-motor laboratory crossing from defence into humanoids. The robot story is now about parts.
Read article →OFILM won periscope telephoto module orders for two consecutive Xiaomi flagship generations while AI glasses demand builds into Golden Week. Both fold light through precision glass — and both compete for the same capacity.
Read article →Vocus says subsea construction resources are committed beyond 2030 while customer demand has grown by orders of magnitude. What that means for fibre, connector and repeater buyers.
Read article →UTU high-density connectors carried NPO and SNPO links at the Yunqi Conference, and Corning convened its second CPO forum. Why connectors, coupling optics and test access now decide co-packaged optics yield.
Read article →Nearly every flagship pet device now carries a camera. The differentiator sold is the health data, which changes the sensor, compute and privacy spec.
Read article →A 150-unit framework order worth USD 2.625 million for the EU market, and the compliance and sensing requirements the buyer attached to it.
Read article →Cumulative silicon lens shipments passed 900 million units and customers are said to cover over 95% of optical module makers. What it means for buyers.
Read article →A 2024-founded Chinese startup showed a single-lane 400G MUTC photodiode sample aimed at 3.2T modules. The linearity and coupling detail is the signal.
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