A selection of new launches and announcements from this week’s expo in San Diego.

San Diego expo also hosts live demoes of emerging technologies, gives updates on data centers, and more.

Stanford University develops AI-assisted approach for analysis of blood and waste water.

Platform employing alexandrite lasers could form part of planned European lidar array.

Flir’s latest Prism AI iteration validated on 2.3 million multi-spectrum annotations, to improve perception.

“NGHTS” will feature three sensor types: color day imager, low-light imager, plus thermal imager for total darkness operations.

Close-canopy and focused-lighting methods “capitalize on LEDs’ special properties” for horticulture.

German-funded project FoulLas is “green and efficient” at cleaning maritime surfaces by underwater laser.

ams Osram and Revolution Microelectronics partner on illumination system at GreenCare Collective’s farm in Milbury, Mass.

Multiline illumination detects tissue areas in parallel, could expand biomedical applications.

optics.org highlights a selection of new announcements from last week’s Photonics West and BiOS exhibitions.

Australia-based scientists report on its electro-optical potential for space navigation, farming and more.