Applications

Robot bin picking is being employed by a leading toy manufacturer based in Denmark to separate plastic building blocks during production

Scientists at the University of the West of England are using face recognition to detect different emotional states in pigs in order to alert farmers to any health and welfare problems

New software called ChimpFace is helping conservationists identify illegal trade in chimpanzees using face recognition

The World Wildlife Fund and Flir Systems are supplying rangers across 10 parks and game reserves in Kenya with thermal imaging cameras in an effort to stop illegal rhino poaching

Retailers in the US and UK are expected to trial an age verification vision system at checkouts for customers buying age-restricted items

SLAMcore, a UK developer of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised $5m in funding in order to help it deliver its technology market

The Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli has built a prototype inspection system to improve quality control during the production of its tyres. Pirelli's Vincenzo Boffa described the system at the European Machine Vision Forum in Bologna, Italy in September

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have built a robot that can assemble an Ikea chair in less than 10 minutes

Ford is using motion tracking to analyse how its employees working on car assembly lines move, in order to design less physically stressful workstations