Harald Wuest (centre) receiving the award from Anne Wendel, director of VMDA Machine Vision, and Messe Stuttgart's Florian Niethammer. Credit: Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Visometry’s Twyn software is an AR platform for quality inspection; users annotate a CAD model against which the real part is compared
An exclusive preview of the five shortlisted entrants for this year’s coveted Vision Award
Luca Verre (left) of Prophesee collecting last year's award from Martin Wäny. Credit: Messe Stuttgart
Brighter AI, Edge Impulse, Kitov.ai, Saccade Vision and SWIR Vision Systems have been nominated, with the winner to be announced at Vision Stuttgart
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Twenty young companies will be part of the Start-up World section at Vision, which will take place from 4 to 6 October
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Saccade Vision and its partner Euclid Labs developed the 3D vision system to inspect metalwork after processing
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Vision start-ups are proliferating, thanks to AI and embedded computing. But what makes young companies successful? Abigail Williams reports
Saccade's system can scan with variable resolution to view certain regions in higher quality. Credit: Saccade Vision
We spoke to Saccade Vision’s CEO, Alex Shulman, about the firm's MEMS triangulation system, which can vary the resolution and direction of each 3D scan
Both Saccade Vision and Tridimeo are targeting the automotive sector with their 3D vision cameras. Credit: Supergenijalac/Shutterstock.com
Greg Blackman speaks to two young companies with some novel 3D imaging approaches
A glass inspection system must distinguish between flawless and waste products to achieve automotive glass wafers free of optical distortions
Susan Fourtané on the increasing demands being placed on web inspection solutions to achieve zero-defect manufacturing
Automation is the only way for e-commerce and logistics firms to fulfil orders since the dramatic uptick in online shopping brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic
Facing new pressures and demands, logistics operations are calling for adaptable machine vision solutions to drive efficiency, discovers Benjamin Skuse
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography
Left: A semiconductor wafer shown to be opaque to white visible light. Right: the wafer is mostly transparent to SWIR light at a wavelength of 1,200nm, making it a suitable wavelength for semiconductor inspection.
Hunting defects in the soon-to-be trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is big business. Anita Chandran explores the latest wafer inspection technology
