North American sales of machine vision components and systems have reached $709 million in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 19 per cent year-on-year
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19 June 2018
The OPC UA machine vision and robotics working groups have released the first versions of their companion specifications at the automation trade fair Automatica in Munich, Germany
15 June 2018
Camera maker Basler is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The Ahrensburg-based company began as a two-man operation in the technical center in Lübeck, Germany
11 June 2018
The European Machine Vision Association has presented its 2018 Young Professional Award to Doris Antensteiner, a researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology
06 June 2018
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has begun a project to build the world’s most advanced high-speed video camera for imaging tissue in cancer research
23 May 2018
Airbus technicians have seen efficiency gains of 90 per cent when using vision to inspect dents in aircraft bodywork compared to manual methods
23 May 2018
Algolux, a provider of machine-learning stacks for autonomous vision, has closed a $10 million series A funding round led by General Motors Ventures. Its technology has also won best automotive solution at the Embedded Vision Summit
Analysis & opinion
22 June 2018
Robot bin picking has been worked on for a number of years, and while it has been shown to be possible it’s only now that the technology is coming to fruition. Greg Blackman looks at what was on display at Automatica
29 May 2018
After speaking at AutoSens Detroit on 16 May, Nadav Haas, product manager at Israeli firm Newsight Imaging, gives his opinion on why the company’s CMOS solution is a good fit for lidar sensing in autonomous driving
24 May 2018
Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week
Features
15 June 2018
Keely Portway looks at the changing relationship between human and robot in industrial environments, and the latest vision innovations involved in bringing them together
15 June 2018
In the run up to the Fifa World Cup, Greg Blackman examines how video analysis is used to improve the performance of top athletes
20 April 2018
Greg Blackman visited the Embedded World conference and exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of February to find vision in abundance
20 April 2018
Andrew Williams finds that 3D scanning systems that can pinpoint dents and imperfections on aircraft body panels are being welcomed by aviation businesses to replace manual inspection
20 April 2018
Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance
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21 June 2018
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20 June 2018
Photonex, the UK show dedicated to photonics and light technologies, will see the return of HSI 2018: Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications Conference on 10-11 October 2018 at Ricoh Arena, Coventry
15 June 2018
Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis today announce a structural reorganisation to improve overall efficiency, quality of service and time-to-market of its infrared technologies