Imaging bites back
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
French firm Arcure has released an autonomous stereo-sensor head for industrial 3D vision use called Omega
Basler is releasing the Blaze 3D camera, based on Sony DepthSense time-of-flight technology
Creaform has announced that its HandyScan 3D laser scanner can now be used for recording physical attributes of aircraft dents and blends on all models of Boeing commercial airplanes
Sick has launched the Ranger3 camera. The high-definition streaming camera is powered by Sick’s imager with Rapid On-Chip Calculation (ROCC) technology
OmniVision Technologies has announced the OVM7251 CameraCubeChip global shutter sensor
SmartRay will present company’s new ECCO 95.020 3D sensor at the Control trade fair 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany, 7-10 May
A large German supplier in the automotive sector has now chosen the PowerPick3D bin picking system
Robot bin picking is being employed by a leading toy manufacturer based in Denmark to separate plastic building blocks during production
Gom’s technology, which includes non-contact 3D sensors and scanners for surface metrology, will now be part of Zeiss’s industrial metrology and quality assurance portfolio
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
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
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