The digital event will be held on 11 November when the cancelled Vision show would have taken place. Young vision companies have until 28 October to apply
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Florian Niethammer, project manager for Vision
Vision trade fair organisers to run start-up competition
12 October 2020
Automatica 2020 cancelled amid travel restrictions
29 September 2020
Messe München now plans to hold an exhibition in early summer 2021 as a bridge to the 2022 show
Prophesee releases software kit for event-based imaging
23 September 2020
The software will help engineers develop event-based vision systems, an imaging method that records changes in a scene rather than capturing an image frame by frame
Florian Niethammer, team director and the project manager responsible for Vision at Messe Stuttgart
Vision Stuttgart to return in October 2021
14 September 2020
Messe Stuttgart has set a date of 5 to 7 October 2021 for the Vision show, which was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The show will be held in parallel with Motek
Terahertz tech gets €8.6m to scale up for industrial inspection
03 September 2020
Terahertz imaging company, Tihive, has been awarded €8.6m from the European Innovation Council's Accelerator programme to scale up its industrial inspection technology
US vision market down 8% for first half of 2020
01 September 2020
The robotics market in North America is down 18 per cent so far compared to the same period last year
Stemmer Imaging revenue down 10%, but expects 2020 to pick up
13 August 2020
The company said that shifts in demand, particularly in the areas of sports and entertainment, infrastructure and automotive, had a negative impact
Basler headquarters in Ahrensburg
Basler up 9% for first half of 2020
06 August 2020
Basler recorded sales of €88.9m for the first half of 2020, but has seen a decline in order intake at the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Flir's Q2 2020 results show a demand for thermal cameras for fever screening
Cognex revenue falls 15% as sales to automotive crash
30 July 2020
Growth in logistics partially offset the weak automotive market year-on-year, and more than offset it on a sequential basis
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars rover to study Red Planet with advanced imaging
29 July 2020
The Perseverance rover contains 19 cameras, including seven scientific instruments. It will analyse the climate and geology of Mars, looking for signs of past life, as well as monitoring the Martian atmosphere
Vision Stuttgart cancelled amid Covid-19 travel restrictions
16 July 2020
A date for the next show has not been announced yet, but Messe Stuttgart is running a survey about the cancellation
Lynred joins consortium to build 3D stacked IR detectors
16 July 2020
Lynred sees 3D stacking technology as key to enabling superior designs in future infrared detectors
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Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
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Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
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How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
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Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
