Robotics, assembly and manufacturing experts are currently converting industrial production lines in record time to help cope with the corona pandemic
OnRobot has launched Eyes, a 2.5D vision system
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
Automatica has been postponed from June until 8 to 11 December on account of the coronavirus outbreak. The measure was taken in consultation with the VDMA Robotics and Automation Association
‘UK manufacturing needs to do something different going forward,’ commented Mike Wilson, chairman of the British Automation and Robot Association, at a London press event for the trade fair Automatica
Paul Wilson, managing director of Scorpion Vision, describes what it takes to install a 3D robot vision system in a Chinese foundry
Featuring sensor end users and manufacturers, the two-day Sensor Show congress will focus on applications and best case uses for sensor technology and IoT in automotive and transportation, industrial and manufacturing, as well as connectivity and future technologies
Baumer's VeriSens vision sensors can now control Universal Robots cobots
The international robot exhibition
At the iREX2019, a robotics shows in Tokyo this December, Vision Components presents camera boards and embedded vision systems for robotic vision applications
Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
The highlighted objects on the left show scaling errors, rotation errors or translation errors, while the objects on the right are a truer representation. Credit: Zivid
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector
