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COPA-DATA

COPA-DATA is an independent, family-owned Austrian software manufacturer founded by Thomas Punzenberger in Salzburg in 1987; its zenon platform automates machines, buildings, and power grids worldwide.

Copan WASPLab

Copan WASPLab (Walk-Away Specimen Processor Lab) is a laboratory automation system for clinical microbiology made by Copan, automating specimen processing, incubation, and digital plate imaging.

Copasa

Copasa (Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian water supply and sanitation company serving most municipalities of Minas Gerais, founded in 1963 and privatized in June 2026.

Copeland (company)

Copeland, legally Copeland LP, is a privately held American climate technologies company making compressors, controls, and software for heating, cooling, and refrigeration since 1921, formed in its present standalone shape in 2023 under Blackstone ownership.

Copelouzos Group

Copelouzos Group (Όμιλος Κοπελούζου) is a Greek infrastructure and energy investment group founded in 1972, known for the GREGY Egypt–Greece interconnector and the Alexandroupolis LNG terminal.

COPEM-PT Oficina Oil Pipeline

The COPEM-PT Oficina oil pipeline is a 141-kilometer, 30-inch crude oil pipeline in eastern Venezuela, carrying diluted extra-heavy crude from Petromonagas to El Tigre, operated by PDVSA.

Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport, also known as Kastrup Airport, is Denmark's main international airport on the island of Amager, opened in 1925 and serving 32.4 million passengers in 2025.

Copenhagen Airports

Copenhagen Airports is the Danish state-owned company operating Copenhagen Airport in Kastrup and Roskilde Airport, created in 1990 and back in majority state ownership in 2025.

Copenhagen Metro

The Copenhagen Metro, also known as Københavns metro, is a driverless rapid transit system serving Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, opened in 2002 with four lines, M1 through M4.

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, run by the European Environment Agency and Joint Research Centre, provides land cover data for Europe and worldwide since 2012.

Copernicus Programme

Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation program, run by the European Commission with ESA, whose Sentinel satellites monitor land, oceans, atmosphere, and climate with free open data.

Copernicus satellite

Copernicus, also called Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 (OAO-3), was a NASA ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1972 and operated until 1981, carrying the largest ultraviolet telescope orbited to that date.

Copeton Dam

Copeton Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Gwydir River in northern New South Wales, Australia, completed in 1973 as the main irrigation storage for the Gwydir Valley.

Copilot Cowork

Copilot Cowork is an agentic work mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot, built on Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology, that executes multi-step work like sending email and scheduling meetings.

Copilot in Windows

Copilot in Windows, also known as Windows Copilot, is Microsoft's AI assistant built into Windows 11, first shipped in preview in 2023 and expanded through 2025.

Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio is a low-code Microsoft platform for building conversational AI agents, announced in 2023 as the successor to Power Virtual Agents within the Power Platform.

Copilot Vision

Copilot Vision is a Microsoft Copilot mode that lets the assistant view a shared app window or mobile camera feed and answer questions by voice, launched on Windows in June 2025.

Copilot+ PC

Copilot+ PC is a Microsoft brand for Windows 11 computers with a neural processing unit of at least 40 TOPS, announced in May 2024 with exclusive on-device AI features.

Coplanar waveguide

A coplanar waveguide is a planar transmission line in which a central signal conductor and two ground electrodes are patterned on the same substrate surface, carrying microwave signals.

CoppeliaSim

CoppeliaSim, known until 2019 as V-REP (Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform), is a general-purpose robot simulator by the Swiss company Coppelia Robotics in Zurich, with support for ROS, Python, and Lua scripting.

Copper extraction

Copper extraction is the set of mining, beneficiation, and metallurgical processes that turn copper ore into pure metallic copper, using hydrometallurgy for oxide ores and pyrometallurgy for sulfide ores.

Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell

Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells are thin-film photovoltaic devices whose Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorber has a tunable bandgap, with a record lab efficiency of 23.6%.

Copper indium selenide

Copper indium selenide (CuInSe₂, often abbreviated CIS) is a chalcopyrite compound semiconductor used as the light absorber in thin-film solar cells; alloyed with gallium it forms CIGS.

Copper indium selenide solar cell

A copper indium selenide solar cell (CIS) is a thin-film photovoltaic device using the chalcopyrite semiconductor CuInSe₂ as its absorber; the first cell was reported by Kazmerski in 1976.

Copper interconnect

A copper interconnect is a copper wire that carries electrical signals between transistors inside an integrated circuit, replacing aluminum as the industry standard after IBM's 1997 announcement.

Copper mining in Chile

Copper mining in Chile is the extraction of copper ore in the world's leading copper producer, anchored by state company Codelco and private operations like Escondida.

Copper Mountain Mine

Copper Mountain Mine is an open-pit copper-gold mine about 15 km south of Princeton, British Columbia, owned by Hudbay Minerals and producing since June 2011.

Copper plating

Copper plating is an electroplating process that deposits a layer of copper onto a metal or other conductive surface, used for corrosion-protective and decorative underlayers, electrical conductivity, and printed circuit board metallization.

Copper redox mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells

Copper redox mediators are copper complexes, typically Cu(I)/Cu(II) couples, that shuttle electrons between dye and electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells, achieving over 32% efficiency under indoor light.

copper switch-off

Copper switch-off is the decommissioning of legacy copper telephone networks as customers migrate to fiber, cable, and mobile services, with the UK's switch-off due by 2029.