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
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
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
