Photoneo implements Parallel Structured Light technology in a 3D camera – MotionCam-3D – which allows the capture of objects moving up to 140 km/h, delivering a point cloud resolution of 0.9 Mpx (and 2Mpx in the static mode).

The Parallel Structured Light approach for 3D sensing aims to fill a critical gap among 3D sensing solutions, enabling a whole new range of machine vision applications and tasks in the process.

TriVision’s machine vision based inspection automation solutions for the food manufacturing sector improve prodcut quality, but they also provide additional business benefits.

Industrial Robot’s Joanne Pransky sits down with Vision Robotics COO to discuss the company’s road to developing robotic pruners, weeders and lettuce thinners.

Soft Robotics, whose vision systems and soft grippers can handle a wide variety of items, said it can now address costly e-commerce returns of polybagged items.

Visual inspection in manufacturing, mobile robots in warehouses, and drone infrastructure inspections are just some of the IoT applications for the new Brain Builder SDK.

In January 2020, robotics investments and mergers and acquisitions showed continued strength across applications, even as economic challenges affected manufacturing and food service robots.

System provides safer human interaction between humans, industrial robots.

Predictive maintenance, equipment monitoring, defect inspection among top applications, ABI Research says.

Researchers create system that could help autonomous cars and robots see better.

IMPROV toolbox helps power safe robots, avoiding contact with humans while getting tasks done faster.

Different methods help robotics understand objects, shapes, and where they’re located.

Contraction in semiconductor space drove fewer orders in machine vision and systems, AIA says.

Demonstration uses special light sources and sensors to reconstruct shapes of unseen objects.

Rensselaer lab working to expand robot capabilities to improve humans’ quality of life.

Value-added relationship will give Clearpath users the ability for autonomous mobile robot navigation.

Brain Builder platform streamlines creation, deployment, and analysis for companies looking to deploy AI.

Wrapping up a week of product announcements for developers looking to create new robotics and autonomous systems.

The latest product announcements for developers of robotics, self-driving vehicles and other automation systems.

Facial recognition cameras are multiplying across the world. We look at the similarities and differences among five countries leading the way in use of the technology.

Video annotation tool in Brain Builder can help organizations reduce the time and cost of AI data preparation by at least 50%, says Neurala.

In the near future, surgeries will include enhanced imaging, greater autonomy, and optimized learning, said experts at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics.

ExRobotics, a Dutch maker of remote-controlled systems for the oil and gas industry, uses IDS products because of their cost and hardware and software capabilities.

Intel’s Neural Compute Stick 2, or NCS 2, and related tools improve processing at the edge, speeding the prototyping for healthcare and other AI applications.

In this week’s global roundup, we look at how Australia is following China’s example in using facial recognition for internal security. Also, is Industry 4.0 dying in Germany?