Every grain counts
4 June 2020
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
June/July 2020
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Helping hand for hospital testing labs
4 June 2020
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
Guided by the light
4 June 2020
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
Flir Q1 thermal camera orders for fever screening jump
7 May 2020
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
AMRC's Kieran Edge talks Ventilator Challenge and supply chains
5 May 2020
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's David Hearn remembered
5 May 2020
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
Automation proposition undiminished, say vision industry bodies
27 April 2020
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
Automation demand grows in essential sectors, say robot firm CEOs
9 April 2020
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
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Unispectral’s solutions allow for a smaller, lower-cost system that can be used in any application for which hyperspectral imaging is desired. Credit: Unispectral
Reducing the cost and size of hyperspectral cameras is opening up many more applications, as Keely Portway finds out
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A GigE Vision round-up with a look at some of the latest technology
Setup of combined hyperspectral and fundus camera at Peter Stalmans’ lab at KU Leuven. Credit: Imec/KU Leuven
Investigations are underway into using hyperspectral imaging to screen for a host of medical conditions, as Abigail Williams finds out
Nerian Vision’s stereo vision cameras incorporate an FPGA for real-time 3D imaging. Credit: Nerian Vision
High-speed 3D cameras were in full force at Vision Stuttgart. Alice Rolandini Jensen explores the technology
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Although open-source software is practically ubiquitous in the IT world, there will likely always be a place for proprietary machine vision offerings, finds Benjamin Skuse
Credit: Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH
Mark Williamson, Chairman of the Board of VDMA Machine Vision, at the opening of the Vision trade fair, said the industry had grown by an impressive 16% in Germany in 2021
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Fresh from Embedded World, we speak to Tim Vehling at Mythic on the benefits of AI accelerators for industrial vision
