UK vision equipment supplier, Multipix Imaging, has become a member of the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Sick has launched 2D and 3D vision-guided part localisation systems for robot picking from a belt or from a bin
Isra Vision has released a compact sensor with quad-camera technology, which enables bin picking for small components
A three-year EU research project, called Spirit, has begun that aims to reduce engineering costs when setting up inspection robots in factories
Robot bin picking has been worked on for a number of years, and while it has been shown to be possible it’s only now that the technology is coming to fruition. Greg Blackman looks at what was on display at Automatica
Keely Portway looks at the changing relationship between human and robot in industrial environments, and the latest vision innovations involved in bringing them together
Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week
A robot designed to kill salmon has been installed in a fish farm in Norway to automate its slaughterhouse. Tordivel's Thor Vollset described the system at the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference in Milton Keynes on 16 May
Sick has collaborated with Universal Robots to develop an entry-level vision-guided cobot system for pick and place, quality inspection and measurement
Damir Dolar, managing director of Croatian firm Smartek Vision, spoke at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in June. Here, he gives his view on the European industrial imaging market
Matthew Dale discovers that polarised imaging could soon see a surge in uptake in industrial inspection, thanks to a new sensor from Sony
Active Silicon turns 30 in September. Greg Blackman speaks to founder Colin Pearce (below) on building the company and the importance of FPGA technology
Greg Blackman on the deep learning software tools now being deployed in industrial imaging
Keely Portway looks at some of the miniature imaging technology used in endoscopes