Have you ever wondered how a robot navigates a cluttered room or how a drone maintains its altitude with pinpoint accuracy? The secret lies in the tools used to measure distance, an often-overlooked ...

A new dual-microcomb method enables chip-scale devices to measure distances with nanometer accuracy, paving the way for advances in nanotechnology and photonics. (Nanowerk News) Optical frequency ...

How two unrelated Nobel prize-winning advances were combined. How the phononic-based measurement scheme was devised. Details of the arrangement used in the lab-bench test to validate the idea. It’s ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum ...

Researchers have developed a new method of distance measurement for systems such as GPS, which achieves more precise results than ever before. Using quantum physics, the team has successfully overcome ...

Scientists have demonstrated the fastest distance measurement so far. The researchers demonstrated on-the-fly sampling of a gun bullet profile with micrometer accuracy. The experiment relied on a ...

Measuring distances accurately has become significantly easier with the advent of smartphone technology, particularly with the array of distance measuring apps available for both Android and iPhone.