Cognex's revenue was $811m for the year, a 12 per cent year-on-year increase thanks to higher revenue from consumer electronics and e-commerce
Cognex posted revenue of $251m in Q3 thanks to large customer deployments in the consumer electronics sector, along with a strong performance in logistics
Hamamatsu Photonics has acquired a 55 per cent stock share in Hamamatsu Photonics Korea. The subsidiary in Korea aims to strengthen the sales structure for imaging and measurement instruments in Korea and responding to the demands of Korean semiconductor manufacturers
Cognex expects the decline in revenue to continue into the first quarter of 2020, because of weakness in automotive and the estimated impact of the coronavirus outbreak
The result reflects lower sales to customers in consumer electronics, particularly smartphone manufacturing. Revenue from automotive and other industrial markets also continued to weaken
Cognex expects its revenue to continue to decline in the third quarter 2019, because of lower revenue predicted from consumer electronics and weakness in Europe and Asia
Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon has launched a 3D non-contact surface inspection system for defect detection and for inspecting the aesthetic appearance of non-reflecting surfaces
Ams and Qualcomm Technologies have announced intent to build a 3D camera for mobile phone applications
French company Isorg, which specialises in printed organic photodetectors and large-area image sensors, has raised €24 million in a Series B financing round
Eye tracking for healthcare along with a robot using vision to play table tennis are all part of the tech being shown at CES 2018 in Las Vegas this week
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
