Swiss company Asyril now uses image processing systems to facilitate gripping bulk material components by robots in production, relying on industrial cameras from SVS-Vistek
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
More than 1,000 European robotics experts are expected to attend the 11th edition of the conference. ERF2020 will host a major exhibition where companies, universities and research institutes showcase prototypes, products, services and projects funded under EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme. With over 50 workshops highlighting the newest robotics research, the event will offer a unique window to the latest developments on the European markets.
The ERW2019 Central event in Poznan will be focused on robotics and artificial intelligence. It will be run by well-known robotics actors in Poland, with a great track-record of robotics events organisation (e.g. Rover Challenge): Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (PSNC), European Space Foundation (ESF), and Planet Partners (PR & Communications).
Stemmer Imaging has acquired Spanish firm Infaimon for a deal reported to be in the low tens of millions of euros
The European Machine Vision Association has announced that Dr Bernd Liepert, president of EuRobotics and former chief innovation officer at Kuka, will open the 17th edition of EMVA’s annual business conference
A large German supplier in the automotive sector has now chosen the PowerPick3D bin picking system
Robot bin picking is being employed by a leading toy manufacturer based in Denmark to separate plastic building blocks during production
The latest version of Isra Vision's IntelliPick3D, now fitted a four-camera sensor solution, enables robust component detection and optimised cycle times
Contract R&D organisation, Southwest Research Institute, has developed a vision solution that improves robot handling of shiny metallic objects, which it is showing at Automate in Chicago
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
Keely Portway looks at new terahertz and infrared technologies being developed to inspect aircraft
CCS now offers a range of OLED industrial lighting panels, which are opening up new possibilities in machine vision, writes Paul Downey, marketing manager at CCS Europe
Suprateek Banerjee, VDMA Robotics and Automation, gives an update on OPC Machine Vision, which provides uniform integration of machine vision systems into higher IT production systems
Zeiss's Smartzoom 5 digital microscope can remove glare from images by using angular illumination
Reporting from the EMVA’s business conference in Copenhagen, Greg Blackman discovers how angular illumination and computational imaging can dramatically improve the resolution of a system
Greg Blackman reports on the discussion around embedded vision at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in mid-May
Test image at 940nm
Imec is working to industrialise thin-film photodetector stacks on CMOS in order to fabricate low-cost infrared image sensors, as the Belgian institute’s Dr Paweł Malinowski explains
Greg Blackman reports on CSEM's Witness IOT camera, an ultra-low power imager that can be deployed as a sticker. Dr Andrea Dunbar presented the technology at Image Sensors Europe in London in March
Greg Blackman reports on the complexities of training AllGo Systems' driver monitoring neural networks, which the firm's VP of engineering, Nirmal Kumar Sancheti, spoke about at the Embedded World trade fair
Greg Blackman reports from the Image Sensors Europe conference in London, which took place from 13 to 14 March
