Using drones could enable visual aircraft inspections in under an hour. Credit: Mainblades
Matthew Dale takes a bird’s eye view of aircraft inspection, where drones equipped with vision are replacing manual checks
Keely Portway looks at the latest vision technology used to inspect solar cells
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in drone operations company DroneBase, becoming an exclusive supplier of thermal imaging equipment and training
Endeavor Robotic Holdings builds unmanned ground vehicles, while Aeryon Labs develops aerial systems
SLAMcore, a UK developer of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised $5m in funding in order to help it deliver its technology market
Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance
Flir Systems has completed a strategic investment in DroneSense
Researchers at the University of Zurich and the Swiss research consortium NCCR Robotics are using eye-inspired cameras to guide drones in low-light conditions
Matthew Dale finds that optical inspection techniques are improving upkeep and the running of rail networks
Matthew Dale looks at how thermal imaging is improving solar plant inspection
Unispectral’s solutions allow for a smaller, lower-cost system that can be used in any application for which hyperspectral imaging is desired. Credit: Unispectral
Reducing the cost and size of hyperspectral cameras is opening up many more applications, as Keely Portway finds out
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A GigE Vision round-up with a look at some of the latest technology
Setup of combined hyperspectral and fundus camera at Peter Stalmans’ lab at KU Leuven. Credit: Imec/KU Leuven
Investigations are underway into using hyperspectral imaging to screen for a host of medical conditions, as Abigail Williams finds out
Nerian Vision’s stereo vision cameras incorporate an FPGA for real-time 3D imaging. Credit: Nerian Vision
High-speed 3D cameras were in full force at Vision Stuttgart. Alice Rolandini Jensen explores the technology
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Although open-source software is practically ubiquitous in the IT world, there will likely always be a place for proprietary machine vision offerings, finds Benjamin Skuse
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Mark Williamson, Chairman of the Board of VDMA Machine Vision, at the opening of the Vision trade fair, said the industry had grown by an impressive 16% in Germany in 2021
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Fresh from Embedded World, we speak to Tim Vehling at Mythic on the benefits of AI accelerators for industrial vision
