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 capital will fuel the startup's global expansion, acquisitions, and team growth.
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 funding was led by the Toshiba Tec Corporation.
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, maintains and supports software for a dozen global leading logistic integrators enabling them to...
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 the automotive industry. Interob will become part of Jenoptik's Light & Production and will...
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 microscope equipped with a camera can be upgraded to a whole-slide scanner for use in life...
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 opportunity to give a free 20-minute presentation on one of the following four main...
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 implementation of voice control. In addition, the workshop will teach the basics for...
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 Keynote will be the first presentation of the Conference at 10 AM on 14th May 2020 at 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 customized lighting and electronic controls according to customer requirements.
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 him many years of management and R&D experience in the optical industry as well as in...
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 range up to 1,700nm.
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 has already been working for the company for many years and will now manage the company...
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 functionality and usability.
Antares Invests in Orobix Since the end of 2019, Orobix, a company based in Bergamo, Italy, has been part of the Antares Vision family. The company is specialized in the development of projects and solutions based on artificial intelligence for process automation and decision support. Recently the agreement was signed allowing Antares Vision to acquire...
Fraunhofer IDMT Joins Fraunhofer Vision Alliance The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau is a new member of the Fraunhofer Vision Alliance, thus strengthening the Fraunhofer Vision service portfolio with the aspect of acoustic quality testing. As a result of Fraunhofer IDMT's membership, specialist departments from 15...
Leddartech Partners with First Sensor Leddartech announces a strategic collaboration with First Sensor. Both companies will initiate this collaboration with the development of a Lidar Evaluation Kit, demonstrating a technical concept in a working Lidar and creating a tool for suppliers and system integrators to develop their own Lidar.
The optoNCDT 1760-1000 long-range laser sensor by Micro-Epsilon also measures at distances of up to 2m with up to 7.5kHz.
The Absolute 3D laser scanner AS1-XL by Hexagon is designed for inspecting large surfaces and can be used with both the laser tracker and mobile measuring arms.
As part of the joint project ‘Dynamic-holographic measurement method for recording metallic free-form surfaces (HoloMotion)’, Fraunhofer IPM was able to show that digital-holographic measurements are also possible on moving test objects.
Foreign objects in the plastic melt are a problem in extrusion.
Dr. Heinrich Schneider Messtechnik presents the WMX 600 optical shaft measuring machine with the Quick Detect (QD) function.
Install the sensor, scan the object, visualize and evaluate measurement data, all of this can be done in just ten minutes with the new MetrologyPackage from AT Automation Technology.
ICP Germany offers the E310-10EHI-J6413, a fanless embedded system that can be used for inference systems and industrial control thanks to Hailo-8TM AI IC.
Midwest Optical’s SK100 Filter Test Kit contains 70 filters for UV, VIS and NIR imaging, making it ideal for testing and evaluating image quality.
Engineered to optimize machine vision systems operating at high speeds, Smart Vision Lights ‘Hidden Strobe’ is a solution to the prevalent issue of distracting and disorienting LED strobe lights.
The Keyence VS model series enables quick problem solving for a variety of testing applications thanks to smart hardware architecture.
The IVS 108 of Leuze’s Simple Vision series detects present or absent objects.
Imec demonstrates successful incorporation of a PPD structure in the readout circuit of thin-film-based image sensors; the first of its kind.
