Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A new 3D camera and SensorApp solution from Sick has enabled rapid, damage-free guidance of automated and driver-assisted high-bay forklifts into pallet pockets, as well as the pick-up of dollies by automated guided vehicles
Sick has made its Visionary T 3D snapshot camera programmable, so it can run user-specific image processing applications developed in its AppSpace software development ecosystem
Surface-based matching in Halcon, from MVTec Software
Greg Blackman looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data
Sick has launched its Visionary S stereo camera, enabling precise, high-speed capture of 3D colour images for integration into robot guidance and quality inspection applications
Sick has launched the Ranger3 camera. The high-definition streaming camera is powered by Sick’s imager with Rapid On-Chip Calculation (ROCC) technology
AutoCoding Systems has developed the 4Sight solution for automatic print inspection, powered by Sick AppSpace
Sick will show the 4Sight automated print inspection system
Sick has launched the Ranger3 camera, powered by a new CMOS sensor
Sick has launched its fully-programmable TrispectorP1000 3D vision camera to enable reliable, continuous in-line product detection
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
