As director of Vision Ventures, Yates will support corporate transactions for both the buy and sell side of merger and acquisition projects
The acquisition follows a four-year long technology collaboration on the development of a simulator for ophthalmology slit lamp examinations, the Eyesi Slit Lamp
The private equity investor Ambienta has purchased 1st Vision, a North American distributor of machine vision
The purchase adds surface inspection and 3D machine vision to the Swedish industrial group's portfolio as its customers move towards digital manufacturing
The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
The TKH Group has bought optical metrology firm FocalSpec to add to its portfolio of machine vision technologies
Sualab’s Suakit machine vision software uses neural networks to detect atypical and irregular defects that are not easily captured by a traditional rule-based machine vision system
Thorlabs has purchased US-based Operations Technology (Optek), a designer and manufacturer of large-format, granite-based video and x-ray dimensional measurement systems
SVS-Vistek has been bought by TKH Group, which owns Allied Vision, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET and Tattile
Trottier takes control of Matrox's three divisions: Matrox Imaging, Matrox Graphics, and Matrox Video
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
