Applications

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

Cameras, laser scanners and vision software are all allowing Fraunhofer IPA’s new customer service robot, Care-O-bot 4, to greet shoppers and show them around an electronics store in Germany

A trial monitoring the health of psychiatric patients with camera technology has taken place at Broadmoor High Secure Psychiatric Hospital in the UK

Two years' worth of data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft - which includes a camera with a billion pixels - is scheduled for public release on 14 September

A rare Mexican book that was hidden from view for almost 500 years has been revealed using hyperspectral imaging

A high speed camera recently developed by Nasa has successfully recorded a video of the jet propulsion during a test of Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket booster

A research team based at Ecole Polytechnique and ESPCI ParisTech in Paris, France have explored the reason why balls in particular sports experience a zigzag (or knuckleball) trajectory when travelling through the air without spin

UK company Altec Engineering has designed and installed a vision system for 100 per cent inspection of components used in hearing aids

Thermal imaging cameras are being used during the Tour de France to detect hidden motors in bikes

A research team at the Radboud University in the Netherlands are using deep neural networks to convert hand-drawn face sketches into photorealistic images