Top Innovations
Awarded
inVISION presents the ten inVISION Top Innovations 2026
Once again a jury of industry experts selected the ten inVISION Top Innovations. The ten products and solutions enable new approaches, solve previous problems or significantly accelerate inspection procedures. The inVISION team warmly congratulates all winners on their awards. The winners will be listed here in alphabetical order.
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Novel Image Sensors
A new approach from eyeo enables 3x more light-sensitive, compact, and cost-effective image sensors.
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Asynchronous SPAD Cameras
The NV04ASC-HW camera from NovoViz was developed for applications that require high sensitivity or frame rates with reduced output bandwidth.
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Vibration-Immune White Light Interferometry
For the first time, Metubiq has made white light interferometry vibration-immune.
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3D Ultrasound for safe Robotics
Sonair’s patented ADAR (Acoustic Detection and Ranging) technology is designed to replace lidar sensors.
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AI Inline Terahertz Platform
TiHive’s technology, which is already being used by several large industrial companies, combines terahertz imaging devices with AI, enabling real-time, non-destructive inline quality and process inspections directly on production lines.
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Path Correction with just one 3D Scan
VMT CloudBK uses high-resolution point cloud sensor technology to capture the entire component geometry in a single 3D scan.
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Photometric Stereo Lighting Unit
The modular PS Line Light from MSTVision was specially developed for photometric stereo applications with line scan cameras.
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Digital Component Clamping
Eleven Dynamics and Witte Barskamp have developed a digital method for component clamping that can be used independently of specific measuring systems.
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eSDK Pro – SDK for High-Speed Vision Systems
Emergent Vision Technologies’ eSDK Pro Software Development Kit enables clean scaling of high-performance 10, 25 and 100 GigE vision systems.
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Virtual Inspection with a Single Click
Using Medabsy Light, users can upload a component’s CAD file via a browser, select its material, add light sources from a database and place the component in a 3D scene.
Top Innovations 2025
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Multispectral AI analysis from the Air
Agrowing enables the identification of pests and diseases from the air using multispectral AI analysis. For this purpose, panchromatic cameras are coupled with an IR-cut sensor, creating a camera housing that allows high-resolution RGB mapping with 61MP and 10-band multispectral scanning with…
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Radar Detection of Hidden Objects
The RadarImager from Balluff is an industrial 3D imaging system. It is based on radar technology and is able to scan a wide variety of packaging. To do this, it emits radar waves that are reflected differently depending on the object. The…
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Processing & Moving Image Data
ECapture Pro is software for integrating Emergent Vision’s 10/25/100 GigE cameras. The FlexProc function enables image data and results to be processed in the system, e.g. on CPUs, GPUs or in the cloud. FlexTrans allows image data and results to be moved…
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Surface-wide Inline Roughness Measurement
The new inline sensors from Fraunhofer IPM can be used to measure the roughness of surfaces quickly, over a large area and without contact. Spectral speckle correlation (SSK) is used for this. The method is based on the analysis of speckle patterns…
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1:10 Real-Time Compression
Quality+ from Gidel enables real-time compression in a ratio of 1:10 without affecting the image quality and maintaining the original image quality. Demanding applications such as volumetric videos and motion analysis no longer have to sacrifice image quality in favor of frame…
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High-Speed LED Controller
The high-performance LED controllers iPulse from iCore (distributed by Rauscher) can provide currents of over 200A with a pulse duration of less than 0.5µs. The sequencer function enables multi-strobing, i.e. up to eight sequences can be assigned to control eight LEDs individually…
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Illumination with Nanoactive Fiber Lasers
The nanoactive fiber lasers LuxiBright from L.E.S.S. for illumination outperform LEDs in terms of brightness and uniformity. The technology produces intense and directed light with a reduced illumination angle beam diameter. The uniformity of the light also improves image quality, especially on…
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Efficient Deep Learning Retraining
MVTec’s deep learning feature Continual Learning makes it possible to retrain an existing model with a few new images and at the same time ensures a robust recognition rate. The performance of a conventional CPU is completely sufficient for this. This means…
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Flexible Picking by Voice Command
With PickGPT, Sereact has combined LLMs and VLMs to create a Vision Language Action Model (VLAM). Thanks to zero-shot planning, the model is able to solve tasks without special training and to adapt dynamically to new situations. A special feature is the…
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Real-Time Capture of Context Data
With PickGPT, Sereact has combined LLMs and VLMs to create a Vision Language Action Model (VLAM). Thanks to zero-shot planning, the model is able to solve tasks without special training and to adapt dynamically to new situations. A special feature is the…
Top Innovations 2024
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Open Metrology Platform
The Nexos 4.0 software from Eleven Dynamics enables automated measurement processes to be simulated and managed in a digital twin. This means that any robot, sensor and cell configuration as well as external software can be supported. Users do not need to…
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Thickness Measurement of Transparent Layers
The laser photothermal technology advanced by Enovasense – a Precitec Optronik subsidiary – measures coating thicknesses of all types (e.g. metal, ceramics, paint, polymers, adhesives, etc.) on any carrier material. This makes it possible to precisely measure the thickness of opaque layers…
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Camera for parallel Lock-in Measurements
The lock-in principle enables the extraction of the smallest signals from very noisy environments. With the HeliCam C4, Heliotis is also making the process accessible for industrial cameras. A camera that integrates this technology at the pixel level can almost completely suppress…
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Count Pallets and Mesh Boxes
With the VisionPort, Invisium has developed a multifunctional scanner that captures euro pallets, mesh boxes or crates in countless variations on-the-fly in just a few seconds and achieves an identification rate of greater than 98%. An AI reconstructs holistic information from incorrect…
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3D Outdoor Scanning under Sunlight
Photoneo introduces the 3rd generation of Ambient Light Suppression technology to enable 3D scanning even under the most demanding lighting conditions. The technology not only ensures high scanning quality in direct sunlight, but also for large objects with shiny surfaces, such as…
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Robot-controlled Holding Technology
The Poly Robot Automated Fixture System (Prafs) from Protos 3D automates the virtual clamping of Zeiss Metrology’s ScanBox technology. Thousands of different components are held on a flexible device. The parts are changed and positioned automatically in seconds without any mechanical retooling.
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Continuous Flash Light
Thanks to Smart Vision Lights’ hidden strobe technology, LEDs can trigger themselves internally thousands of times/sec, producing a nearly continuous light source. When the light is triggered synchronously with the camera to take a picture, the hidden flash pulses stop and the…
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Inline Bubble Detection without CT
The measuring device from Tenta Vision works according to the principle of laser interferometry and detects stiffness inhomogeneities in a deformation analysis. Components are stressed by an energy input and are caused to deform on the nm scale. This is recorded as…
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Photothermal Tomography System
The 3D V-Rox system from voidsy is a compact and smart photothermal tomography system. Based on active thermography, the device determines the 3D geometry of hidden material and component defects. This makes it possible to determine absolute defect sizes, as well as…
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Automated Surface Inspection
The Abis III optical sensor with multi-color technology (six color cameras, 180 LEDs) from Zeiss IMT has a high error detection rate, an image recording frequency of up to 20Hz and a high and consistent depth resolution. The automated inline surface inspection…
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