C5-CS sensors
12 April 2018
Based on the fast 3D sensor C5-1280-GigE, AT expands its series of 3D laser sensors with four new models
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Robotic Vision Technologies secures $10.5m in funding
23 March 2018
Robotic Vision Technologies, a machine vision software firm specialising in vision-guided robotics, has secured more than $10.5 million in funding to support its growth in the industrial and collaborative robot markets
Shipping containers to be unloaded by vision-equipped robots
30 January 2018
A collaborative research project between academic and commercial entities is exploring how a combination of imaging, machine learning and robotics could be used to automate the unloading of standard 40-foot shipping containers
Ocado turns to 3D vision in robot picking solution
4 December 2017
Researchers at Ocado Technology, the tech division of the online supermarket Ocado, have developed a prototype robot picking solution that uses a 3D vision system to identify and pick up objects from crates
Nextsense reaches €10m mark on 10th anniversary
7 November 2017
Profile measurement and surface inspection company, Nextsense, has passed €10 million for the first three quarters of 2017
Parameters of 3D sensing techniques in a nutshell
5 October 2017
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Machine vision is one of the driving forces of industrial automation. For a long time, it’s been primarily pushed forward by improvements made in 2D image sensing and, for some applications, 2D sensing is still an optimal tool to solve a problem. But the majority of challenges machine vision is facing today has a 3D character. From well-established metrology up to new applications in smart robotics, 3D sensors serve as a main source of data. Here, we discuss the parameters of 3D sensing techniques.
Through the eyes of machines
1 October 2017
Matthew Dale explores how 3D cameras are granting robots the gift of sight
Q&A: Boaz Arad
9 August 2017
Boaz Arad, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Computational Vision Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2017
Rethinking 3D vision
12 July 2017
Tolga Birdal at the Technical University of Munich is co-organising a 3D vision workshop at the ICCV computer vision conference in October. Here, he argues that 3D vision's strength - geometry - is also what's holding it back
Sights on 3D
1 June 2017
Cognex has strengthened its position in 3D vision with a number of recent company acquisitions in the area, as Greg Blackman discovers
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