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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
AM is an especially good fit for products that require a high level of customization.
Products: Test & Measurement
Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robotics & Machine Vision - November 2019
Advances in robotics and machine vision are transforming the factory floor. To help you keep pace with the latest developments in industrial automation, we present this compendium of recent articles...Products: Test & Measurement
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
Briefs: Imaging
Understanding how cars, planes, bridges, and other structures handle vibrations and dynamic loads can be critical to their design and performance. Researchers have developed a new way to measure...
Articles: Imaging
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
Briefs: Imaging
Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...
Application Briefs: Software
Machine vision is a broad term with many applications and definitions, but at its most basic definition it is using an imager or camera along with software to inspect and analyze a real...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Each passing year, machine vision is finding its way into applications that were not commercially feasible — and in some cases, impossible.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Tumaini app will could help farmers spot pests and disease before it's too late.
Articles: Communications
Along with the onslaught of Internet of Things (IoT) and wirelessly enabled devices, cloud connectivity has become a major benefit for a range of applications from commercial to military. As of...
Articles: Imaging
Stepper motors and stepper-based linear actuators are often selected for open-loop motion control devices and equipment. These can be found in a wide range of products and systems...
Briefs: Transportation
Adversarial techniques were developed that can make objects “invisible” to image detection systems that use deep-learning algorithms. These techniques can also trick systems into...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Automated Object Detection in an Image
Recent developments in machine vision have demonstrated remarkable improvements in the ability of computers to properly identify objects in a viewing field. Most of these advances rely on color-texture analyses that require target objects to possess one or more highly distinctive, local features that can be...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It is well known from astronomical imaging that various atmospheric conditions and weather effects have an impact on image quality. This is due to local changes of the refractive index of the air...
Products: Imaging
Sensor Controller
The induSENSOR MSC7401 sensor controller from Micro-Epsilon, Ortenburg, Germany, is used for displacement and distance measurements and is operated with LVDT and LDR measuring gauges and...
Blog: Imaging
A new machine-vision tool extracts and reports valuable driving data from the standard traffic cameras already in place.
Articles: Data Acquisition
In recent years, the emergence of Industry 4.0 has been steadily transforming the manufacturing sector into an ultra-high-tech industry. Innovative smart technologies such as robotics,...
Articles: Imaging
There are a number of ways to extract data from a production line. In factory automation, sensors are used in work cells to gather data for inspection or to trigger other devices. These sensors fall into...
Articles: Software
Three-dimensional (3D) imaging applications are used in many different industries ranging from industrial pick and place, palletization/depalletization, warehouse, robotics, and metrology to...
INSIDER Product: Imaging
Tracking Camera
The Intel® RealSense™ T265 Tracking Camera from FRAMOS (Ontario, Canada) uses inputs from dual fisheye cameras and a Bosch IMU along with its own processor on board. The Movidius MA215x ASIC provides edge...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Machine Vision Cameras
Vision Research (Wayne, NJ) has introduced the Phantom® S210 and S200, 2Gpx/sec (16 Gbps) machine vision cameras. The S210 reaches 1,730 frames per second (fps) at full 1.3Mpx resolution, while the S200...
Articles: Materials
Additive manufacturing is poised to liven the pace and scale of manufacturing. Deploying a range of techniques that use 3-D models to print objects layer by layer, it can generate a...
Articles: Imaging
FLIR Systems has introduced their Firefly machine vision camera with open platform deep learning inference onboard. Deep learning makes it possible to easily develop high performance solutions for difficult...
Application Briefs: Communications
The consumable component of muscle tissue in meat is approximately 75% water, 20% protein, 5% fat, carbohydrate, and minerals. The proportions vary depending...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Deep learning technology is inspired by the way the human brain works, using trained artificial neural networks to perform recognition and decision-making tasks. A convolutional neural network...
Briefs: Medical
Outsourcing machine learning is a rising trend in industry. Major tech firms have launched cloud platforms that conduct computation-heavy tasks, such as running data through a convolutional...
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Answering Your Questions: Are There Regulations for Machine Learning in Vehicles?
How do you regulate a system that, in effect, is learning as it goes?
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Numerous devices in everyday life use computerized cameras to identify objects — think of automated teller machines that can “read” handwritten dollar amounts when...
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Blog: Design
The Kitchen Tech Hack Aiming to Revolutionize 3D Printing
Quiz: Aerospace
National Astronaut Day 2026: Astronauts and Space Missions Quiz
Blog: Aerospace
Lincoln Laboratory Laser Communications Terminal Launches on Historic...
Articles: Design
Redefining the Automotive Industry with Versatile Innovation
Blog: Aerospace
915 Hours in Space: An Interview with Retired NASA Astronaut Linda Godwin
News: Energy
Webcasts
Webinars: Energy
Hidden Measurement Errors in AI Data Center Power Integrity
Webinars: Materials
Superior Environmental Protection with Ultra-Thin Parylene and Multilayer...
Summits: Software
Battery Manufacturing & Simulation Summit 2026
Webinars: Power
Virtual Screening of Materials for Increased Battery Performance
Webinars: Software
Scaling SDV Development with Virtualization
Webinars: Test & Measurement
From Spec to Scale: High-Precision Grinding Strategies for Tight-Tolerance...
