A set of 13 sixteenth century Italian wind instruments has been restored to working condition by Swiss experts using 3D X-ray imaging

Chinese glass producer Wuhan Changli has improved quality control on its production lines by installing an automated inspection system. The company manufactures more than 12 million square metres of low emissive glass per year

A vision analysis system from Kinatrax has helped keep baseball pitchers from the Chicago Cubs' team that won the 2016 World Series injury-free. Greg Blackman reports from a talk Steven Cadavid at Kinatrax gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara

Japanese inspection system builder, MEK Marantz Electronics, has been able to increase the resolution of its PCB inspection machines with FPGA processing

A camera system for boring machines used in tunnel construction, such as those drilling the Brenner Base Tunnel in the Austrian Alps, has been developed by an Austrian university

A consortium of scientists has received £4 million to develop a robotics solution, including remote inspection, for maintenance of subsea power cables on offshore wind farms

Researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have collaborated with laser manufacturer M Squared to develop an infrared imaging system that could offer low-cost, real-time detection of methane gas

A university project to investigate mining in space, which uses a vision system to map the particles thrown up by a drill, is underway in Poland

A thermal imaging system designed to detect muscle and ligament damage in the legs of racehorses is currently being used by horse trainers and veterinary surgeons in the UK