A new 3D camera and SensorApp solution from Sick has enabled rapid, damage-free guidance of automated and driver-assisted high-bay forklifts into pallet pockets, as well as the pick-up of dollies by automated guided vehicles
Lucid Vision Labs has announced series production of its Helios Flex 3D time-of-flight module
LMI Technologies has launched the Gocator 2530 smart 3D laser line profiler
Chromasens has introduced a 3D reconstruction method to its CS-3D-API library
Paul Wilson, managing director of Scorpion Vision, describes what it takes to install a 3D robot vision system in a Chinese foundry
The Harvesters (1565), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Greg Blackman speaks to Dr Richard Dudley about the National Physical Laboratory’s 3D imaging rig, which will be scanning wheat in crop breeding trials this summer
Keely Portway on the importance of vision for robots working in warehouses
LMI Technologies has launched the Gocator 2490 smart 3D laser line profiler
The purchase adds surface inspection and 3D machine vision to the Swedish industrial group's portfolio as its customers move towards digital manufacturing
Chromasens 3DPixa stereo line scan camera
The machine is able to inspect a complete bearing at 80 parts per minute, at 5µm height resolution, and simultaneously in colour and 3D
Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
The highlighted objects on the left show scaling errors, rotation errors or translation errors, while the objects on the right are a truer representation. Credit: Zivid
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector
