EU Spirit project to advance robot inspection
3 July 2018
A three-year EU research project, called Spirit, has begun that aims to reduce engineering costs when setting up inspection robots in factories
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Best of bin picking at Automatica
22 June 2018
Robot bin picking has been worked on for a number of years, and while it has been shown to be possible it’s only now that the technology is coming to fruition. Greg Blackman looks at what was on display at Automatica
AIT stereo vision researcher wins EMVA young professional award
11 June 2018
The European Machine Vision Association has presented its 2018 Young Professional Award to Doris Antensteiner, a researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology
One hundred million frames per second camera to further cancer research
6 June 2018
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has begun a project to build the world’s most advanced high-speed video camera for imaging tissue in cancer research
Enhanced time-of-flight: CMOS solution for automotive lidar
29 May 2018
After speaking at AutoSens Detroit on 16 May, Nadav Haas, product manager at Israeli firm Newsight Imaging, gives his opinion on why the company’s CMOS solution is a good fit for lidar sensing in autonomous driving
Data-driven business models inspired by 3D vision
24 May 2018
Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week
Real-time melt pool monitoring in additive manufacturing
18 May 2018
Dr Christos Theoharatos, chief scientific officer at Irida Labs, describes an imaging system for monitoring the melt pool in additive manufacturing, developed as part of a Horizon 2020 project
Ambarella marks 20 years of autonomous driving
14 May 2018
Italian vision company VisLab, now part of semiconductor firm Ambarella, is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of MilleMiglia in Automatico, one of the world’s first tests of an autonomous vehicle on public roads
Colloidal quantum dot sensor to disrupt SWIR imaging market
23 April 2018
Spin-out firm SWIR Vision Systems is to commercialise colloidal quantum dot infrared sensors, which, the company says, could displace InGaAs technology. Dr Ethan Klem, Allan Hilton, and George Wildeman from the company discuss the performance, fabrication, and cost trade-offs of CQD sensors versus InGaAs
Qualcomm launches SoCs for embedded vision
16 April 2018
Computing company Qualcomm Technologies has released a family of system-on-chips built for devices incorporating vision technology
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Greg Blackman speaks to Imec’s Paweł Malinowski about the institute’s new quantum dot SWIR sensor
Hyperspectral imaging can be used to check for blemishes on food packaging lines. Credit: Brillopak
Matthew Dale finds out how vision is enabling smaller batch sizes to be processed on packaging lines
Vision Components MIPI modules can be connected to various embedded processors, including Nvidia Jetson boards
Greg Blackman examines the effort that goes into creating an embedded vision system
Keely Portway finds out how imaging is helping keep cyclists and pedestrians safe
The UK Industrial Vision Association’s Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson assess some of the implications of the trade deal between the EU and the UK
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Dimitrios Damianos and Eric Mounier at Yole Développement examine the market landscape after the $8bn purchase
Dr Chris Yates, director of Vision Ventures, gives his take on Flir's acquisition by Teledyne Technologies
Greg Blackman reports on the views of panellists from AIT, MVTec, Irida Labs, and Xilinx discussing AI and machine vision
Imaging and Machine Vision Europe gathered a panel of experts to discuss uptake of 3D vision in robot automation. Greg Blackman reports on what was said
