Delivering on e-commerce
3 January 2019
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Greg Blackman tries to put a figure on the cost of vision technology
Ocado
Automating grocery shopping
27 March 2018
Matthew Dale explores how online supermarket Ocado is using 3D vision to automate its warehouses
Shipping containers to be unloaded by vision-equipped robots
30 January 2018
A collaborative research project between academic and commercial entities is exploring how a combination of imaging, machine learning and robotics could be used to automate the unloading of standard 40-foot shipping containers
Ocado online supermarket trials collaborative robot
12 January 2018
British online supermarket, Ocado, is trialling a prototype collaborative robot designed to support human technicians maintain and repair equipment in the company’s automated warehouses
Ocado turns to 3D vision in robot picking solution
4 December 2017
Researchers at Ocado Technology, the tech division of the online supermarket Ocado, have developed a prototype robot picking solution that uses a 3D vision system to identify and pick up objects from crates
Latest issue
Keely Portway looks at the trials and tribulations of bringing new technology to market, particularly in a pandemic
Prof Dr Bernd Jähne, chair of EMVA 1288 and senior professor at HCI, Heidelberg University, gives a preview of release 4.0 of the EMVA standard 1288
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on the difficulties the machine vision sector is facing, and why there are still plenty of positives
Vision Ventures’ director Dr Chris Yates on what the future holds for M&A activity in machine vision
As a new academic year begins, Greg Blackman finds out what students taking image processing courses in two universities have in store
Géraldine Andrieux, CEO of Blumorpho
Ahead of the Inpho Venture Summit in October, Blumorpho CEO, Géraldine Andrieux, discusses how startups should approach pitching for venture capital funding in these uncertain economic times
Greg Blackman speaks to Simon Beveridge, managing director of UK-based vision integrator Siga Vision, about installing vision systems during Covid-19
Some of Luminate's third cohort of startups. Credit: Luminate
On 14 September, 10 photonics startups from Luminate's business accelerator will present their technology during The Optical Society’s virtual conference. Greg Blackman asks Luminate MD, Sujatha Ramanujan, how these young companies are coping during Covid-19
Credit: Messe Stuttgart
Greg Blackman gathers opinion from the vision community on the impact the cancellation of Vision Stuttgart has on product releases and connecting with customers
