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Laser
  • Robotics

A device that emits a beam of light – can be used in sensing to tell, from a distance, some characteristics of an object.

 

Lead
  • Salesforce

A lead is anyone who has shown interest in a company's products or services but may not yet be qualified to buy.

 

Lead Scoring
  • Salesforce

A methodology used by sales and marketing departments to determine the worthiness of leads or potential customers. It includes automatically scoring inbound leads with a numerical value to indicate how interested they are in your product or service.

Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
  • Robotics

A component with resistance that changes according to the light intensity that falls upon it.

Light phobe
  • Robotics

A form of Braitenberg vehicle which steers away from lights.

Light seeker
  • Robotics

A form of Braitenberg vehicle which steers towards lights.

Linear robots
  • Robotics

Type of industrial robots with two or three principal axes that move in a straight line rather than rotate, functioning at right angles to each other.

Link
  • Robotics

A rigid part connecting the joints that are the movable components of the robot.

Liquidity
  • Blockchain

The ease of converting an asset, or in this case, cryptocurrency, to cash (fiat).

Localization
  • Robotics

In robotics, it is about determining where a mobile robot is located with respect to its environment.

Logic
  • Robotics

A branch of mathematics concerned with signals that can be only true or false, and which form the basis of modern computers.

Lookup
  • Salesforce

Lookup fields allow you to associate two records together in a relationship. For example, a contact record includes an account lookup field that associates the contact with its account.