Ocado invests $287m in two robot firms
The online UK supermarket Ocado has bought two North American robotics companies to enhance robot picking in its warehouses and expand its client base
The online UK supermarket Ocado has bought two North American robotics companies to enhance robot picking in its warehouses and expand its client base
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Matthew Dale explores how online supermarket Ocado is using 3D vision to automate its warehouses
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
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
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
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
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
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