Gocator 2530 smart 3D laser line profiler
9 March 2020
LMI Technologies has launched the Gocator 2530 smart 3D laser line profiler
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
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Gocator 2490 smart 3D laser line profiler
24 February 2020
LMI Technologies has launched the Gocator 2490 smart 3D laser line profiler
The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The best of 2019
23 December 2019
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
Surface-based matching in Halcon, from MVTec Software
Measuring the third dimension
22 November 2019
Greg Blackman looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data
Gocator 3D smart sensors supports OCR
22 November 2019
LMI Technologies has announced that Gocator 3D smart sensors now support optical character recognition and barcode reading
LMI gains FocalSpec tech through TKH acquisition
1 November 2019
The TKH Group has bought optical metrology firm FocalSpec to add to its portfolio of machine vision technologies
Extending reach of robotics
29 March 2019
Andrew Williams explores the vision solutions for robot bin picking
Gocator 2512 laser line profile sensor
22 March 2019
LMI Technologies has launched the Gocator 2512 laser line profile sensor
LMI certified for Universal Robots integration
12 December 2018
LMI Technologies has been certified for integration with Universal Robots
Lakesight bought by TKH to create vision super entity
16 October 2018
Lakesight Technologies has been acquired by the TKH Group, the Netherland’s-based company that owns Allied Vision, NET, and LMI Technologies
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MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
Credit: Drag&bot
Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
