Editing Laser pointer (section)

===Industrial and research use===
[[File:Laser-Level.jpg|thumb|Laser level used in construction.]]
Laser pointers are used in industry. For instance, construction companies may use high quality laser pointers to enhance the accuracy of showing specific distances, while working on large-scale projects. They have proven to be useful in this type of business because of their accuracy, which made them significant time-savers. What is essentially a laser pointer may be built into an [[infrared thermometer]] to identify where it is pointing, or be part of a [[laser level]] or other apparatus.

They may also be helpful in [[scientific research]] in fields such as [[photonics]], [[chemistry]], [[physics]], and [[medicine]].

Laser pointers are used in [[robotics]], for example, for [[laser guidance]] to direct the robot to a goal position by means of a laser beam, i.e. showing goal positions to the robot optically instead of communicating them numerically. This intuitive interface simplifies directing the robot while visual [[feedback]] improves the positioning accuracy and allows for implicit localization.<ref name=Paromtchik2006>
{{cite journal
|last1=Paromtchik |first1=Igor
|title= Optical Guidance Method for Robots Capable of Vision and Communication
|journal=Robotics and Autonomous Systems
|publisher=Elsevier
|year=2006
|volume=54|issue=6|pages=461–471
|url=https://app.box.com/s/h7mt5efgolt7isfghu71
|format=PDF
|doi=10.1016/j.robot.2006.02.005}} 
</ref><ref name=Paromtchik2002>
{{cite web 
|title=Mobile Robot Guidance by Laser Pointer
| website=[[YouTube]] | date=15 October 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PgL6Npkmeg
 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/2PgL6Npkmeg| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|format=Video
|access-date=3 May 2015}}{{cbignore}} 
</ref>