Innovations in Optics has introduced the Pattern Blazer, a high-power, LED fixed-pattern projector for structured lighting and stereovision in 3D machine vision
Laser Components now offers a digital laser driver for driving and monitoring selected Flexpoint laser modules
Cognex is the world's leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing and logistics automation. Applications include detecting defects, monitoring production lines, guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting and identifying parts. Cognex is headquartered in the US and serves an inernational customer base from offices in more than 20 countries.
Laser Components USA has launched the Albalux FM at SPIE Photonics West. Albalux FM is a laser white light module with fibre optic output for illumination in medical and machine vision applications
The Flexpoint MVstereo laser module from Laser Components is now available with truly random patterns, with 31,806 or 47,708 dots
Osela is pleased to introduce the SL PULSED POWER structured light laser designed to emit very high peak optical power while maintaining our Streamline Laser’s industry standard small footprint
ProPhotonix has announced the addition of two new infrared laser diodes to its product range
At Laser World of Photonics Laser Components presented a new generation of line laser modules for machine vision
Cognex today introduced the In-Sight Laser Profiler, an easy-to-use measurement system that verifies part dimensions
ALRAD IMAGING is one of Great Britain's foremost vision distributors for Machine Vision, Industrial Inspection, Scientific, Research and Microscopy applications. We sell a very wide range of CCD and CMOS cameras, lenses, frame grabbers, imaging software, lighting solutions for imaging applications and a whole range of Machine Vision accessories.
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
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
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
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
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
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
