Fulfilling promise of pick and place
24 February 2020
Keely Portway on the importance of vision for robots working in warehouses
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Logistics
Cognex revenue down 12 per cent in Q4-19
24 February 2020
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
Logimat 2020 (Cancelled)
The international trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management.
Vision Components to exhibit MIPI cameras at Logimat
18 December 2019
Vision Components will present its latest embedded vision systems and MIPI camera modules at the 2020 Logimat trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany
Cognex revenue down 6% due to weak electronics sector
13 August 2019
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
Intel releases SLAM camera for warehouse navigation
6 March 2019
Intel has launched a camera with simultaneous localisation and mapping built-in. The tracking camera fuses visual and inertial sensor inputs
Cognex logistics sales up 50% in 2018; electronics sector down
19 February 2019
Cognex grew 5 per cent in 2018 compared to 2017, posting revenue of $806 million for the year. The logistics sector performed particularly well, growing 50 per cent year-on-year
Delivering on e-commerce
3 January 2019
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Logimat 2019
International trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management.
Virtual viewpoint
1 October 2017
Rob Ashwell finds that logistics, healthcare and research are turning to consumer imaging systems for their needs
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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
Credit: Drag&bot
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
