Industry

Machine vision camera maker Imago Technologies has built an industrial camera based on a vision sensor from Prophesee that operates along similar principals to human vision, rather than capturing frames like a standard CMOS sensor

The award honours the outstanding work of a student or young professional in the field of machine vision or computer vision

Endeavor Robotic Holdings builds unmanned ground vehicles, while Aeryon Labs develops aerial systems

IDS plans to create around 60 new jobs in 2019, opening a new innovation and tech centre in the second quarter of the year

India’s automotive sector is investing in robotics and automation, according to new figures from the International Federation of Robotics

Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis are investing €150 million in the French initiative Nano 2022 to develop the next generation of infrared detectors

Teledyne Technologies has acquired the scientific imaging businesses of Roper Technologies, including Princeton Instruments, Photometrics and Lumenera, for $225 million

Shufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, has signed an agreement to install computer vision startup Trigo Vision’s automated retail platform across its 272 stores

The VDMA expects turnover in the German machine vision industry to remain static in 2018, at €2.6 billion. This follows growth of almost 18 per cent in 2017