Here comes the sun
3 August 2020
Keely Portway looks at the latest vision technology used to inspect solar cells
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Drone
Flir to provide thermal equipment and training to DroneBase
11 April 2019
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in drone operations company DroneBase, becoming an exclusive supplier of thermal imaging equipment and training
Flir buys robotics firms Endeavor for $385m and Aeryon Labs for $200m
14 February 2019
Endeavor Robotic Holdings builds unmanned ground vehicles, while Aeryon Labs develops aerial systems
SLAM algorithm developer raises $5m
15 October 2018
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
Powering surveillance
20 April 2018
Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance
Flir Systems invests in DroneSense
19 April 2018
Flir Systems has completed a strategic investment in DroneSense
Researchers use eye-inspired camera to guide drones
1 November 2017
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
Staying on the rails
3 March 2017
Matthew Dale finds that optical inspection techniques are improving upkeep and the running of rail networks
Sights on solar
2 August 2016
Matthew Dale looks at how thermal imaging is improving solar plant inspection
Navigating image data for GIS
2 August 2016
Beth Harlen looks at how the accessibility of imaging technology has impacted the evolution of geographic information systems
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MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
