Airbus technicians have seen efficiency gains of 90 per cent when using vision to inspect dents in aircraft bodywork compared to manual methods

A robot designed to kill salmon has been installed in a fish farm in Norway to automate its slaughterhouse. Tordivel's Thor Vollset described the system at the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference in Milton Keynes on 16 May

A thermal imaging technique taken from astrophysical software is being used by ecologists at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to improve the accuracy of monitoring endangered animal species

London’s Gatwick airport will be the first airport in the world to trial autonomous vehicles to transport its staff around the airfield

A team of computer, mechanical, and electrical engineers in Greece has combined expertise in robotics and machine vision to design a scanning system for digitising books

Italian firm Electronic Systems has upgraded its web inspection systems to GigE Vision interfaces in order to adapt to changing customer requirements

A new technique using infrared imaging has been developed that could make grading tumour biopsies – and therefore cancer diagnosis – more accurate and reliable

Siemens is developing software that will control and monitor London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, integrating data from ANPR cameras and other sensors

Thermal imaging has been used in a study by researchers at the University of Glasgow to show how animals cope with their environment

British online supermarket, Ocado, is trialling a prototype collaborative robot designed to support human technicians maintain and repair equipment in the company’s automated warehouses