Device-ALab, a company specialising in infrared camera cores, has joined the Photonis group. The transaction allows Device-ALab to benefit from the strategic, commercial and operational support of the Photonis group
Through the acquisition Solid State will further its operations in machine vision, while Active Silicon will have resources to develop its embedded computing and AI capabilities
FringeAI will form a new AI solutions group within LMI. It offers an AI/IIoT solution package that includes deep learning, edge devices and cloud services
Z-Laser will serve as the core and initial asset in Union Park Capital’s newly created holding company, Exaktera
Credit: Flir
Dimitrios Damianos and Eric Mounier at Yole Développement examine the market landscape after the $8bn purchase
Dr Chris Yates, director of Vision Ventures, gives his take on Flir's acquisition by Teledyne Technologies
The Antares Vision Group has acquired Applied Vision of Akron, Ohio, USA, a provider of inspection systems for glass and metal food and beverage container industry
The acquisition adds Flir's thermal and infrared imaging technologies to Teledyne's visible imaging capabilities
Perceptron's 3D measuring solutions complement Isra Vision's 3D vision systems and, together, they offer products for automating key applications along the automotive production line
With the acquisition, Konica Minolta adds Specim’s technology and customer base to its sensing business, based in The Netherlands
Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Active Silicon’s 4xCXP-12 FireBird Coaxpress frame grabber (PCIe Gen3 x8)
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Neil Trevett and Chris Yates
The Khronos Group and the EMVA are to explore software standards for embedded vision. Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The first colour image, captured by a CMV20000 sensor, to be sent back by the hazard cameras on the Perseverance rover after its landing on Mars on 18 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
