Startup Raises USD263m for Industrial Robots The Lexington, Massachusetts-based company which combines AI and robotics to automate omnichannel fulfillment for retailers, ecommerce, and logistics enterprises, announced that it has secured a USD263m funding. The fresh...

Automated Checkout Startup Announces Backing New Zealand technology startup Imagr raises USD9.5m in its pre-series A funding round. The company is the creator of the SmartCart, a checkout-less shopping experience which is made possible through computer vision. The...

Fizyr Attracts Funding for International Growth Fizyr (former Delft Robotics) attracted funding to accelerate product development and international sales of AI software for machine and computer vision for logistics and autonomous robotics. The company develops,...

Jenoptik Group acquires Interob Jenoptik has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Interob. The Spanish company specialises in the design, construction and integration of customer-specific automation solutions and robotics applications with a focus on...

Collaboration KML Vision and Fraunhofer IIS The Graz-based company KML Vision now licenses and distributes the solution for manual whole-slide imaging developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS under the name Ikosa Istix. With the software, a...

Control Vision Talks - New Deadline Due to numerous requests, the deadline for submitting abstracts for the EMVA Control Vision Talks - Forum for Optical Metrology and Machine Vision - at Control 2020 in Stuttgart (Germany) has been postponed. Companies will have the...

Product Workshop i.MX 8 Processor Family Phytec offers product training courses to help you get started with the new i.MX 8 processor generation, where the processors, modules and kits are presented. Possible applications of the processors are embedded imaging and the...

Keynote Speaker for UKIVA MV Conference UKIVA announces that the Keynote address at the 2020 Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition will begiven by Richard Love (pictured) from Nvidia. Love is EMEA Marketing Manager for the Jetson Embedded Processor Family. The...

Cooperation Laser 2000 and Genesi From now on, the industrial LED lighting systems of Genesi Elettronica from Italy complete the image processing program of Laser 2000. Due to an in-house electronics development department, the Italian company is also able to produce...

Reinforcement at LEJ Since January 2020 Jörg Wagner (pictured) has been strengthening LEJ Leistungselektronik Jena as Head of Business Development. In this position he supports existing customers and is responsible for new projects and applications. Wagner brings with...

Rauscher Distributes NIT From now on, the SWIR cameras from New Imaging Technologies (NIT) are in the Rauscher sales program. The SWIR cameras of the WidY SenS and WiDy SWIR series integrate InGaAs sensors, developed and manufactured by NIT and are sensitive in the...

New Managing Director at Falcon Illumination On January 14, 2020, the employees of the LED lighting manufacturer Falcon Illumination MV bid farewell to their founder and former managing director Jürgen Menzel in retirement. Daniell Haug (pictured) succeeds him. Haug...

Partnership Multipix and Pekat Multipix now offers the products of Pekat. Based in the Czech Republic, the company develops anomaly detection software. The Pekat software solution combines vision deep learning and a user-friendly interface to provide a balance between...