Founded in 1946 in Osaka, Japan, HOKUYO developed and continues to provide some of the original automation technologies, including counters, photoelectric sensors and automatic doors, for a wide range of factory automation systems and a variety of manufacturing processes. Over the years, we have been developing a wide range of products for factory automation, including high precision CCD sensors and optical data transmission devices, and are well known to our customers for our creativity and performance. [more]