Fraunhofer IFF’s Dr Dirk Berndt and Sofradir‘s Patrick Abraham have both been elected to the Photonics21 board of stakeholders
Greg Blackman finds that, in a world where large-scale manufacturing is now predominantly located in Asia and emerging markets, Europe still has a lot to offer when it comes to inspection equipment and quality control
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF have created the Wheelinspector, an in-line compatible system for 100 per cent inspection of vehicle wheels without contact
Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
The highlighted objects on the left show scaling errors, rotation errors or translation errors, while the objects on the right are a truer representation. Credit: Zivid
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector
