25 years ago, on 23 February 1995, Esko Herrala, Jukka Okkonen, and Timo Hyvärinen held a meeting that would mark the birth of a new company: Specim
Greg Blackman asks machine vision firms what strategies they employ when hiring staff
The EPIC webinar on hyperspectral Imaging will focus on the hyperspectral imaging hardware and its use in applications from microscopes and spectrometers to airborne or satellite sensors
Greg Blackman on how advances in lighting, optics, and sensor technology are turning hyperspectral imaging into an industrial inspection tool
Specim has announced that Tapio Kallonen has been appointed chief executive officer
Hyperspectral Imaging represents a significant growth segment for machine vision. The potential of this relatively young discipline is estimated to be massive for the future
Specim has released its IQ mobile hyperspectral camera designed for industries ranging from food and health to forensic investigation, recycling, art, and agriculture
Hyperspectral imaging firm Specim has received €3.5 million of investment from Bocap SME Achievers Fund II Ky
Matthew Dale speaks to Specim about the burgeoning industrial spectral imaging camera market
Specim Spectral Imaging has introduced Specim FX17, the smallest and fastest InGaAs based near infrared (900-1,700nm) hyperspectral camera designed directly for industrial machine vision market
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
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
