Dr Andrew Schofield, who leads the Visual Image Interpretation in Human and Machines network in the UK, asks what computer vision can learn from biological vision, and how the two disciplines can collaborate better
Dyson’s Dr Mike Aldred and Ocado Technology’s Dr Graham Deacon have been announced as the keynote speakers for the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference
Rob Ashwell on the advances being made in robot guidance, from the rise of robotics in warehouses to lighting control for robot-vision systems
Greg Blackman reports from a KTN-organised image processing conference, where event cameras and the future of robotic vision were discussed
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has established two grants worth £10.8 million to support major robotics research projects featuring machine vision and sensor technology.
A consortium of scientists has received £4 million to develop a robotics solution, including remote inspection, for maintenance of subsea power cables on offshore wind farms
A look at some of the gadgets incorporating imaging that will be launched at CES 2017, taking place this week in Las Vegas
Robots for smart production, digital transformation of manufacturing, artificial intelligence, human-robot collaboration, and Industry 4.0, will all be talking points at this year’s Automatica
Product manager, material handling and robot vision, Fanuc Europe
A report from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has linked increases in the use of robots in manufacturing with higher employment in the USA. Bob Doyle at A3 looks at the reasons for the trend
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
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
