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Omer Reingold

Omer Reingold is a theoretical computer scientist who holds the Rajeev Motwani Professorship at Stanford University, known for the zig-zag graph product and his 2005 proof that SL equals L.

OmeTV

OmeTV is a random video chat platform launched in 2015 that pairs strangers one-on-one for live webcam and text chat, with over 100 million app downloads.

Omexom

Omexom is the energy infrastructure brand of VINCI Energies, part of the French group VINCI, launched in 2000 and covering power generation, transmission, and solar.

OMICRON Electronics

OMICRON Electronics is an employer-affiliation entry covering Alexander Apostolov, a power-system protection engineer and Principal Engineer at OMICRON electronics in Los Angeles since September 2006.

Omid Farokhzad

Omid Farokhzad is a physician-scientist in nanomedicine who developed targeted nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery, founded the Center for Nanomedicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and leads Seer, Inc.

OMIE

OMIE (Operador del Mercado Ibérico de Energía) is the nominated electricity market operator for Spain and Portugal, running their day-ahead and intraday wholesale markets from Madrid as the sole designated NEMO under MIBEL.

Omkareshwar Temple

Omkareshwar Temple (ओंकारेश्वर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva on Mandhata island in the Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, and is counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas.

Omni Air International

Omni Air International, founded in 1993 as Omni Air Express, is an American charter airline based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, providing worldwide passenger charters and ACMI wet leasing.

Omni wheel

An omni wheel is a wheel with small free-spinning rollers around its rim that drive with full traction while rolling sideways with low resistance, the standard wheel for holonomic robots.

Omni-Path

Omni-Path (Intel Omni-Path Architecture) is an HPC network fabric offering 100 Gb/s low-latency interconnection between nodes of scale-out clusters, introduced by Intel in 2015 as an InfiniBand competitor.

Omni-Wrist

The Omni-Wrist is a family of singularity-free robotic wrist and pointing mechanisms invented by Mark Rosheim of Ross-Hime Designs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, first built in 1986 and developed under a NASA SBIR contract.

Omnicell

Omnicell is an American healthcare technology company, founded by Randall Lipps in 1992 and traded on Nasdaq, that makes automated medication management systems for hospitals, health systems, and pharmacies.

Omnidirectional antenna

An omnidirectional antenna is an antenna that radiates radio waves uniformly in all horizontal directions while concentrating them vertically, used in Wi-Fi access points, cellular small cells, and vehicular radios.

Omniverse Replicator

Omniverse Replicator is a synthetic data generation engine from NVIDIA, announced at GTC in November 2021, that generates physically accurate, automatically labeled 3D training data for robotics and autonomous vehicles.

OmniVoice

OmniVoice is an open-source zero-shot text-to-speech model released in April 2026 by Xiaomi's next-generation Kaldi team, trained on 581,000 hours of open data covering 646 languages.

Omoda C7

The Omoda C7, sold as the Omoda 7 in the UK and Chery Tiggo 7L in China, is a mid-size crossover SUV from Chery's Omoda brand.

Omoda O4

The Omoda O4 is a compact B-segment crossover SUV built by Chinese manufacturer Chery and sold through its export-focused Omoda brand, entering production in Wuhu in April 2026.

OMOTENASHI

OMOTENASHI was a JAXA 6U CubeSat lunar lander launched on NASA's Artemis I in 2022; a communication failure prevented its planned semi-hard landing on the Moon.

OMPL

OMPL, the Open Motion Planning Library, is an open-source C++ library of sampling-based motion planning algorithms, first released in 2008 and serving as the default planner in MoveIt.

Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies

Omron Robotics and Safety Technologies is the robotics and machine-safety subsidiary of Japan's OMRON Corporation, formed in 2019 and based in Pleasanton, California, with more than 46,000 robots deployed across 130 countries.

Omron Viper

The Omron Viper is a family of six-axis articulated industrial robots for precision assembly and material handling, introduced by Adept Technology and acquired by OMRON in 2015.

Omsk CHP-5 power station

Omsk CHP-5 (Омская ТЭЦ-5) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Omsk, Russia, owned by TGC-11 under Inter RAO, with 735 MW capacity.

Omsk-Irkutsk Oil Pipeline

The Omsk–Irkutsk Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод Омск – Иркутск) is a Russian trunk crude-oil pipeline about 1,870 km long, built from 1955 and today feeding the ESPO system toward Irkutsk.

Omsk-Novosibirsk-Kuzbass Gas Pipeline

The Omsk–Novosibirsk–Kuzbass gas pipeline (Russian: газопровод Омск – Новосибирск – Кузбасс) is a trunk natural gas pipeline in Western Siberia, running from Omsk through Novosibirsk to the industrial Kuzbass region of Kemerovo Oblast.

Omsk-Pavlodar Oil Pipeline

The Omsk-Pavlodar Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод Омск - Павлодар) is a 438 km crude oil pipeline running from Omsk, Russia, to Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, in service since 1977 as the first leg of the Omsk-Pavlodar-Shymkent trunk system.

OMV

OMV is an Austrian integrated energy, fuels, and chemicals company headquartered in Vienna. Founded in 1956, it is Austria's largest listed industrial company, with 1,708 filling stations in eight European countries.

OMV Petrom

OMV Petrom is a Romanian integrated energy company and the largest in Southeastern Europe, majority-owned by Austria's OMV and listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

ON Semiconductor

ON Semiconductor, doing business as onsemi, is an American semiconductor manufacturer based in Scottsdale, Arizona, created from Motorola's spin-off in 1999 and grown through acquisitions including Fairchild Semiconductor.

On-board diagnostics

On-board diagnostics (OBD) is a vehicle's built-in self-diagnostic capability whose second generation, OBD II, has been mandatory on US passenger cars since the 1996 model year.

On-chip microwave-to-optical conversion

On-chip microwave-to-optical conversion is the coherent, bidirectional translation of photons between microwave and optical domains on a chip, using transducers to link superconducting quantum processors to telecom optical fiber for quantum networks.