This is a curated selection of some of the machine vision application demonstrations that took place at this year's VISION event in Stuttgart:
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Hall 10, Booth F30
Allied Vision brings machine vision technologies together into one integrated ecosystem. The product portfolio ranges from line scan and area scan cameras to lenses and frame grabbers, and from image processing libraries to IP cores – designed to work together from the start across the entire machine vision workflow.
Allied Vision invited visitors to the booth to experience what seamless integration means in practice: a comprehensive integrated product range, compatible product sets, harmonised software and interfaces, and one support channel across the entire chain.
As a trusted partner with a global network of experts and local support, Allied Vision stands by its customers and partners, making collaboration as easy and reliable as possible. Customers benefit from less integration effort, reduced complexity and risk, and faster implementation.
Allied Vision - One Partner. One Ecosystem. Designed to work together.
Hall 10, Booth D70
For more than 30 years Components Express (CEI) by 2 Connect has continuously challenged the limits of performance, as a leading manufacturer of cable assemblies, IP67-rated camera enclosures and accessories for vision and industrial applications. Industrial M8/M12 cables that are UL/CE-compliant along with IP67 rated camera enclosures, mounts and accessories are just some of the products to join the CEI family in recent years. Camera enclosure accessories include lens covers, air-curtains, light mounts, sun shades and pneumatic window shields, CEI’s Vision cables for Camera Link, GigE Vision, CoaXPress, USB3.0, Analog I/O, and power supplies. CEI is an ISO 9001 : 2015-certified organisation.
Hall 10 - Booth G48
VIUx is a software-defined camera platform from evopro systems engineering that combines machine vision, AI and PLC functionality in a single device. Based on ctrlX OS and powered by the no-code environment VISIONWEBx, the system enables users to develop inspection, identification and automation applications without extensive programming. Unlike conventional smart cameras, VIUx is designed as an open and extensible platform. Image processing, AI models, control logic, motion and communication services can run directly on the device, reducing system complexity and enabling new automation concepts. Applications range from code reading and quality inspection to AI-assisted decision-making and machine control.
VIUx is scheduled for market launch in January 2027. Preorder is now available. Evaluation projects for machine builders, OEMs and system integrators are already fully available from November.
Hall 10, Booth E51
Excelitas® showcased a broad portfolio of high-performance imaging technologies at VISION Stuttgart, Hall 10, Booth E51.
Their LINOS® machine vision lenses deliver high-resolution, low-distortion imaging across a wide range of sensor sizes. Built for demanding inspection tasks, they provide excellent contrast, edge-to-edge clarity, and reliable high-throughput performance.
Also on display was the pco.pixelfly 10 bi CLHS high-performance camera designed for scientific and industrial applications. Capturing fine detail across a 23 mm sensor diagonal at full 4416 × 2368-pixel resolution and up to 57 frames per second, it enables accurate visualization of fast processes and dynamic events.
With decades of expertise and a collaborative design approach, Excelitas helps customers move confidently from concept to production with scalable, high-quality solutions. Click the link below to find out more.
Hall 10, Booth E40
LUCID Vision Labs showcased its latest machine vision cameras at VISION 2026, October 6–8 in Stuttgart, Germany, Booth 10E40. Highlights included a new Triton10 8K line scan 10GigE camera with GigE Vision 3.0, RDMA, PoE, and IP67 protection; the new Triton2 TRT034S 3.2 MP 2.5GigE NIR camera with Sony’s IMX900 sensor; recently introduced STARVIS and STARVIS 2 models across GigE, 2.5GigE, and 10GigE interfaces; and the expanded factory-calibrated Helios2 Chroma RGB-D lineup.
LUCID also presented two Industrial VISION Days sessions covering end-to-end food inspection and automation, and multi-camera GigE systems with RDMA and real-time synchronization.
Hall 8, Booth D48
Opto Engineering® designs and manufactures optics, industrial cameras, lighting and software for advanced machine vision applications. With nearly 25 years of experience, the company develops innovative, reliable and cost-effective technologies, supported by strong R&D capabilities, patented solutions and comprehensive technical expertise.
At VISION 2026, Opto Engineering® displayed fully functional machine vision systems, designed and engineered to address real-world inspection challenges. Live demos showcased solutions for a wide range of industries, including PCBA inspection with liquid lens dynamic focus, internal inspection and measurement of cylindrical EV battery cases, needle verification and glass syringe barrel inspection, and comprehensive glass bottle inspection. From precision measurement to internal inspection and multi-distance imaging, the demonstrations showed how optics, cameras, lighting and software work together in complete vision solutions.
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Hall 10, Booth E59
Prodrive Technologies develops high-performance technology solutions for demanding applications in semiconductor, machine vision, industrial automation, healthcare and scientific markets. Combining expertise in electronics, embedded computing, mechanics and software, Prodrive delivers innovative systems and products from concept to volume production.
At VISION Stuttgart 2026, Prodrive Technologies showcased its latest imaging solutions, including the new Runix-MX105 high-speed camera, designed to deliver exceptional image quality, high frame rates and reliable performance for advanced inspection, metrology and scientific imaging applications.
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Hall 10, Booth G44
Resolve Optics Ltd. is a leading designer and developer of application optimised lenses for all vision applications no matter what the format or required resolution. When developing a new vision lens, they take the demands of your application into account from the very beginning. Resolve Optics can optimise lens performance for a certain working distance, over a specific waveband and design a lens to camera mount to exactly meet your requirements.
In recent years, radiation resistant camera developers serving the nuclear and space industries have been increasingly adopting CMOS sensors for monitoring applications. To meet the higher resolution demands of CMOS sensors, Resolve Optics have been developing a range of High Definition (HD) radiation tolerant fixed focus lenses. At Vision 2026, for the first time, we revealed a new 9mm f/2.1 radiation tolerant HD lens (the Model 419) - with more focal lengths to follow shortly.
Hall 8 - Booth C04
UV-to-SWIR Illumination for Advanced Imaging
REVOX develops custom LED illumination solutions across UV, VIS, NIR and SWIR wavelengths (up to 1900nm). Applications include hyperspectral imaging, semiconductor inspection, life science, scientific instrumentation and machine vision. Custom wavelength and multi-wavelength solutions available.
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Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Hall 8, Booth 8C50
Under the theme ‘From Vision to Action’, AIT demonstrated ICI (Inline Computational Imaging) for the simultaneous 2D/3D inspection of moving objects, photometry for ultrafast inline inspection and the VISION Award-nominated portable motion-robust surface inspection platform, PHOTODEX. The company also demonstrated a robotic inspection platform that automatically plans workflows from CAD models, and SLAM for real-time 3D environment perception, localisation and mapping.
AT Sensors
Hall 10, Booth 10E55
AT Sensors demonstrated two new C7 portfolio products that use 5GigE to simultaneously transmit 3D profile, intensity and reflection data. Sending loss-free data in real time has “limited inline inspection for years” says the company, and “now [it’s been] solved in a single acquisition step”. Live demonstrations at the AT Sensors booth included applications that inspect tyres, beverages and electrical components, and one that combines 3D imaging with infrared sensing to inspect smartphone components.
Edmund Optics
Hall 8, Booth 8C30
At VISION, Edmund Optics demonstrated a custom-optics drone application and a showcase of optical solutions engineered for harsh environments, alongside a range of other applications. Under the theme ‘Your Trusted Partner for Imaging Solutions’, the company showcased how close collaboration between customers and its engineering, design and manufacturing teams results in “practical optical solutions”.
EFFILUX
Hall 10, Booth 10E54
EFFILUX demonstrated how its tailored lighting products can be integrated for dimensional measurements, cap and fill-level inspection, colour and surface inspection, SWIR imaging and QR/Data Matrix reading applications on a live conveyor, and a dedicated logistics portal showcased further identification, traceability and automated material handling applications. Sharing a booth with familial group companies CCS and Gardasoft, the company's stated aim was to “address the most demanding industrial challenges, from logistics to space technologies.”
EVT Eye Vision Technology
Hall 10, Booth 10G57
Demonstrating how its EyeVision software takes manufacturers from concept to application, live demonstrations at the EVT booth featured both 2D and 3D sensors, in applications such as robot pick-and-place and 3D solder-paste inspection systems, as well as the EyeSorter Checkbox, which uses one-click teaching to identify, orient and pass or reject small parts in feeding systems. Visitors were able to try the software tools out themselves to understand how their own production challenges could be addressed.
Exosens
Hall 8, Booth 8C33
At the Exosens booth, the company showcased imaging technologies ranging from UV to LWIR, with live demonstrations of industrial inspection applications such as detecting contaminants and defects in food, identifying and sorting different materials for improved recycling efficiency, thermal imaging and analysis to enhance wafer inspection in semiconductor manufacturing, UV dark-field imaging for improved defect detection and SWIR imaging applications enabled by quantum dot technology.
Demonstrations included machine vision systems that power robotics cells for industrial automation (Image: Messe Stuttgart)
HAIP Solutions
Hall 10, Booth 10E70.8
A complete hyperspectral imaging workflow was demonstrated by HAIP, using industrial inspection and sorting applications in the food and recycling industries as examples. The company’s BlackIndustry SWIR and RGB cameras joined forces with its BlackBright illumination systems and BlackStudio software to handle data acquisition, visualisation, analysis and classification, in a full demonstration of the BlackIndustry Station scanning system.
JAI
Hall 10, Booth 10C18
JAI’s booth boasted 11 live demonstrations covering food, electronics, pharmaceutical, medical and print inspection applications as well as semiconductor manufacturing, recycling and material sorting. Highlights included prism-based RGB/NIR multispectral imaging, UV imaging, cooled SWIR 400-1700nm cameras and SWIR line scan technology, as well as high-res line and area scan cameras with CoaXPress.
Lidwave
Hall 8, Booth 8E60.14
Lidwave demonstrated its Odem sensor, which it says is the world’s first single-chip coherent 4D lidar, designed to provide both range and per-pixel velocity in a single frame for robotics, drone, automotive and industrial automation applications. Based on its patented Finite Coherent Ranging technology, the system puts the optical engine onto a single silicon photonics chip in a monostatic design, which Lidwave says enables calibration-free, wafer-scale production and high-speed perception, even in challenging conditions such as glare, rain, fog, dust and snow.
LUCID Vision Labs
Hall 10, Booth 10E40
New GigE Vision cameras spanning high-res line scan, NIR, low-light and RGB-D imaging were demonstrated by LUCID Vision Labs. The Triton, Triton 2 and Triton 10 models all feature Sony’s STARVIS and STARVIS 2 sensors for applications including automated optical inspection, material sorting and grading, print and surface inspection, food sorting, automated logistics, barcode reading and robotics. The company’s Helios 2 Chroma cameras, which it says improve spatial awareness and material handling for robotics and outdoor 3D imaging applications, were also on show.
MVTec Software
Hall 8, Booth 8C56
MVTec Software demonstrated how AI is extending machine vision beyond traditional image processing techniques. Highlighting the company’s AI Vision Solver, a prototype product that uses AI agents to generate vision applications from prompts, the company presented it as a glimpse into the future of product development. Visitors to the booth were also shown hardware accelerators from Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel and AMD running deep learning systems, as well as new software features from HALCON and MERLIC.
Optotune
Hall 10, Booth 10G25
Using a robotic arm/turntable application, Optotune demonstrated electronically focus-tunable lens modules (ELMs), showing how liquid lens technology can add flexibility to machine vision systems and a combined ELM/adaptive mirror also demonstrated how field-of-view can be expanded for dynamic barcode reading in logistics applications. Visitors were shown how technologies such as liquid tunable prisms and adaptive mirrors can be applied to applications such as optical image stabilisation, lidar and free-space communications.
The latest integrated cameras and industrial lighting systems were on show on the exhibition floor (Image: Messe Stuttgart)
photonicSENS
Hall 10, Booth 10C33
photonicSENS demonstrated its VISION Award-shortlisted industrial light-field cameras, which capture a full 2D image and 3D depth map simultaneously in a single shot, without structured light or scanning. Live demonstrations included applications such as wire-bond inspection, telecentric-lens 2D measurement and XYZ stitching for larger 3D parts. The company also introduced its new apiCAM EDGE+ global-shutter module, which doubles the working range of its standard EDGE camera, reducing captures and inspection cycle times.
Pleora
Hall 8, Booth 8B02
Pleora showcased new connectivity solutions including Camera Link-to-GigE Vision 10GigE and RoCEv2 frame grabbers, as well as an SDI-to-GigE Vision frame grabber and a GigE Vision-to-Thunderbolt model, but the company’s key demonstration featured its Multisensor Edge Integration Platform, which brings cameras together with lidar, ToF and other sensors into a unified perception pipeline. According to Pleora, the approach reduces software complexity, improving interoperability for applications such as industrial automation, robotics and medical imaging.
Sightwise
Hall 8, Booth 8C05
Used for synthetic data generation and AI model development, Sightwise’s flagship SightHub platform was positioned as the main focus of its booth, where visitors were able to see the company’s latest approach to obtaining synthetic training data from 3D CAD models and generative AI. Aimed at reducing the time and manual effort spent on image annotation and dataset preparation tasks, Sightwise says SightHub makes it easier to scale inspection tasks across larger product portfolios, shortening time-to-value and improving model performance.
Singular Photonics
Hall 8, Booth 8D47
The star of the Singular Photonics booth was undoubtedly the VISION Award-shortlisted image sensor Litavis. With High Dynamic Range, Single Photon Counting and Lidar/ToF modes, Singular highlighted the SPAD-based sensor’s configurable sensing architecture and in-pixel processing. According to the company, Litavis moves SPAD technology beyond conventional photon counting and towards more flexible, time-resolved computational imaging.
Spectricity
Hall 10, Booth 10G63
At Spectricity’s booth, the company showcased the new S1-A Evaluation Kit for multispectral imaging. According to the developers, the upgraded device is available in one of two packages: the Discover package supports handheld capture for Android devices, capture and analysis with Spectricity’s GUI for Windows and Mac and automated acquisition via Python. The Develop package is for users to develop their own mobile applications, with access to the Android SDK and application examples. The company also demonstrated its Chromatope SC-400 for Colorimetry, for which more information can be found in the VISION Products Guide on page 18.
Teledyne Vision Solutions
Hall 8, Booth 8B10
Two particular highlights from Teledyne were a live demonstration of its 100Gb/s imaging platform that combines a Sony CMOS image sensor in a Teledyne camera with a frame grabber and CoaXPress interface, and a 5D camera that synchronises 2D imaging with 3D depth data using a single CMOS sensor. Visitors were also be able to explore the company’s SWIR, global-shutter BSI, 3D laser profiler and compact thermal imaging portfolio for applications such as semiconductor, battery and print inspection, as well as robotics, food processing, logistics, metrology, automotive, aerospace, medical and life sciences.
Vision & Control
Hall 10, Booth 10B87
Vision & Control produces integrated photonics solutions that combine optics, illumination and image processing, and these were on show at the company’s booth with two live demonstrations focusing on complex-surface defect detection and high-speed vision for accurate inspection at high production speeds. The company’s telecentric illumination system, for precision measurements and inspections, was also on display, alongside custom-designed optical systems.
