Z-Laser presented itself at this year's Control 2016 not only in a new look, but also only with new products
The new generation of driver electronics of the ZM18 series provides a significant increase in power stability over the entire operating temperature range
Z-Laser now provides even more powerful versions of ZM18 - the ZM18S3, ZM18H3 and ZM18DM53
Emerging from the ZFSM Series, Z-LASER manufactures an OEM fiber-coupled laser platform for diagnostic and intra-operative medical applications
Z-Laser has released a compact and powerful blue laser for image processing, the ZQ-blue
Z-Laser has expanded its ZM12 industrial laser modules to support a wider range of optics
Z-Laser, a manufacturer of laser modules and laser systems, has introduced a range of fibre-coupled laser systems
Z-Laser has introduced a new platform of fibre-coupled laser components for integration into industrial and medical products
Random bin picking holds great potential for automating manufacturing, but it's still incredibly complex. Greg Blackman looks at the vision technology required to guide robots in pick-and-place applications
Z-Laser has introduced the Z3D-Control, a 3D measurement and laser projection system
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
