Postponed machine vision conference goes online
15 April 2020 Following the postponement of this year’s UKIVA Machine Vision Conference & Exhibition (MVC) until the spring of 2021, the UK Industrial Vision Association is launching… Read More
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Autonomous bin-picking cobot puts parts into machines
14 April 2020 The Danish collaborative robot (cobot) specialist Universal Robots (UR) has announced a kit that, it says, will simplify the integration of autonomous bin-picking of parts… Read More
Atlas Copco offers €1.09bn for Isra to enter machine vision
10 February 2020 The Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco has launched a €1.09bn ($1.19m) cash bid for the German machine vision manufacturer Isra Vision, with the approval of… Read More
Lightweight cobot targets first-time users
3 February 2020 Fanuc has unveiled a lightweight collaborative robot (cobot) aimed at first-time users of robots, especially in smaller companies. The CRX-10iA robot can handle payloads of… Read More
Deep learning vision camera runs on-board neural networks
21 October 2019 Flir Systems has developed what it describes as “the industry’s first deep-learning, inference-enabled machine vision camera with Flir Neuro technology”. The Firefly DL camera combines… Read More
Are hybrid mobile robots the future of flexible production?
21 October 2019 At the recent PPMA Total Show in Birmingham, UK, Omron demonstrated its vision of the future of manufacturing in which hybrid robots consisting of a… Read More
Automated print inspection system avoids nuisance stops
10 May 2019 A UK coding and print inspection specialist AutoCoding Systems has collaborated with the sensor-maker Sick to develop what they claim is the first fully-automatic smart… Read More
RFID helps robots to track objects and could replace vision
27 February 2019 Researchers at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the US have developed a system that uses RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags to help robots home… Read More
Deep-learning machine vision opens up new possibilities
4 February 2019 The emergence of machine vision technologies that use “deep learning” is expanding manufacturers’ capabilities and flexibility, leading to greater cost efficiencies and higher production yields,… Read More
Vision system is ‘the first’ integrated into an automation system
31 January 2019 After previewing its new integrated machine vision technology at the 2017 SPS IPC Drives show, B&R Automation provided more details and demonstrations at the 2018… Read More
