SAIC Capital invests in CalmCar CalmCar, a Chinese provider of intelligent vehicle assistance systems, announced today that it has raised approximately US$14.1 million in an A2 Series financing round. The investors are SAIC Capital, an investment subsidiary of the Chinese automobile manufacturer SAIC Motor, and the Beijing Connected Vehicles Development...
From Liquid Level to Metal Part Assembly Inspection The SC Series Vision Sensor is featured with rich built-in vision tools for diversified inspections, integrated lens and light, and a web-based HMI to improve user experience. To find out what improvements the SC Vision Sensors makes we show some actual application cases.
ADAS cooperation Renesas and StradVision Semiconductor manufacturer Renesas Electronics and deep learning technology provider StradVision have announced a joint development of a deep learning based object recognition solution for smart cameras. The solution will be used in next-generation Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications as well as...
Vision Guided Robotics Market 2027 The global market for Vision Guided Robotics amounted to USD 4.12 billion in 2018 and is expected to grow from 2019-2027 to USD 12.99 billion with a CAGR of 13.8%. Growth in recent years has been driven primarily by the growing popularity of automation in various industries. The Asia-Pacific region has the highest market...
CFC Represents EVK in Italy EVK DI Kerschhaggl GmbH, the Austrian expert in industrial imaging for sorting and monitoring bulk materials in the food, recycling and mining industries, appointed CFC Electronic S.r.l. as its partner to offer industrial imaging solutions to the Italian market. CFC Electronic is based in Granarolo dell' Emilia (Bologna).
Record year for German Vision Industries According to VDMA IBV, the German machine vision industry was again able to increase its sales by +4% to 2.7bn€ in 2018. At just under 6%, domestic sales were slightly higher than export business. The two most important export regions were North America (+6%) and Asia (+4%). Almost 43% of the turnover of the German...
Partnership Prediktera & HySpex Prediktera has announced a partnership with HySpex, a manufacturer of hyperspectral cameras. The partnership is formed as an investment from HySpex for joint ownership in Prediktera. "This partnership will provide a software and hardware solution that will make it easier and faster for industrial customers to implement...
4th Packaging Day New trends for packaging machines will be presented at the 4th Packaging Day in Marktheidenfeld, Germany, on November 6. The networking event for packaging technology will take place this time at Schneider Electric's global headquarters for machine solutions. 'The speakers include both solution providers and users. The 4th packaging day...
Carl Zeiss: Changes in the Executive Board On 24 September, the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG resolved changes to the Management Board. Dr. Karl Lamprecht (photo) will become the new Chairman of the Executive Board as of April 1, 2020. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Michael Kaschke, who will not renew his contract, which will expire next year, after ten years...
Zivid ramps expansion in East Asia 3D camera manufacturer Zivid from Norway has announced the opening of sales offices in China and South Korea. In Xiamen, China, Patrick Wong, former Sales Engineering Manager at Rethink Robotics, will take over the position of Country Manager. The subsidiary in Seoul, South Korea, will be headed by Byoung Ho Choi, who...
Wenzel Opens New Development Center On September 23rd the ground-breaking ceremony for the new location of the measuring technology manufacturer Wenzel in Hilpolstein took place. The company is planning a development center for 'Optical High Speed Scanning', which will move into its new premises in the second quarter of 2020. In total, almost 1,000m² of...
VDMA expects production to decline again in 2020 The mechanical engineering industry in Germany must continue to prepare for the strains. The trade dispute between the USA and China and growing global protectionism are not without consequences for the German mechanical engineering industry. Other factors include the weak economy, Brexit and structural...
Financing for AI camera The Danish startup Veo has received a series A financing ofUS$ 6 million. The Copenhagen-based company offers an AI-supported camera to help amateur football clubs broadcast their matches. The company intends to use the new capital to enter the US market.
Optum Ventures invests in Kaia Health Kaia Health has announced a US$8 million financing round. The investor is Optum Ventures. Kaia Health has developed a smartphone-based approach to the treatment of chronic conditions such as chronic back pain using 2D motion tracking. The investment will enable the company to design additional cost-effective and...
October issue of inVISION published The October issue of inVISION can already be downloaded free of charge as a PDF file before the print issue is published. The 92-page edition focuses on MIPI camera modules, deep learning for image processing, lenses & filters and inline CT. In addition to numerous interesting user stories, the main focus of ´vision...
Photoneo opens a new office in China Following the opening of a new office in Boston, U.S., Photoneo opened another one in Shanghai, China. The expansion is part of a global growth strategy and should enable the company to further deliver their solutions for bin picking, machine learning based de-palletisation for logistics, automotive, medical...
The GigE Vision standard uses a UDP-based protocol called GVSP to facilitate image transfer using Ethernet. As data rates have increased, some manufacturers have encountered difficulty achieving performance using GVSP, particularly when data rates approach 10Gbps or higher. This has led to experimentation with TCP or RDMA protocols to mitigate those difficulties but we see these options converge the GigEVision standard with point-to-point protocols like CXP and USB.
The new series of telecentric lenses of Sill Optics includes three lenses with 0.6x, 0.7x, and 0.8x magnification, optimally designed for a 22mm sensor.
Hexagon AS1-XL modular absolute scanner is designed for large surface inspection and can be used with both the laser tracker and mobile measuring arms.
Mech Mind Robotics announces the 3D laser profiler Mech-Eye LNX 8000 series with 4K resolution and a scan rate up to 15kHz.
Imago Technologies announces the pre-production of its new edge AI system, Vision Box AI.
Lanner´s PCIe AI accelerator card Falcon H8 has integrated four to six Hailo-8 AI processors to offload CPU loading for low-latency deep learning inference.
The Euresys Deep Learning Bundle complements a number of image processing and image analysis libraries that are regularly used by users.
Opto Engineering has announced an almost distortion-free macro lens from the MC3M series for sensors up to 1/1″ for capturing small objects.
The vicotar Blue Vision lenses by Vision & Control were specially developed for blue light.
The flat OLED illumination A-221×46-W4K0-W-DIF-S by evotron for reflected and transmitted light applications has a homogeneity of more than 95%.
At Laser World of Photonics Excelitas / PCO / Qioptiq presented a multispectral VIS-NIR-SWIR microscope setup which enables the separation or classification of samples with different spectral fingerprints.
The Quartz Q-25A150 CoaXPress camera by Adimex has integrated the Gpixel GMAX0505 sensor at a high performance in terms of noise, power and ease of integration.
