Vision Systems

KnitMesh Technologies: Electrolyzer Electrodes & PTL/GDLs

KnitMesh Technologies provide bespoke knitted mesh products for automotive, hydrogen, electrolysis, electronics and other technical applications. These include vibration control, sound attenuation, filtering of liquids and gases as well as EMI/RFI shielding. This company profile focuses on KnitMesh's products for water electrolyzers, such as AWE and PEMEL, used for green hydrogen production.

Emerging Sensor Types for Embedded Vision

Anyone who has used a 'smart lens' app on their smartphone is familiar with machine vision. Rather than simply reproducing and storing a picture for later viewing, machine vision applies an image processing algorithm to obtain additional insight, such as locating edges or object identification.

Autonomous Modular Vehicle to Alleviate Agriculture Labour Shortages

The multi-purpose Unmanned Ground Vehicle can be supervised in a fleet of vehicles by a single human operator. The vehicle uses a combination of vision systems and other technologies to sense the environment - to optimize tasks and allow intelligent and targeted application of inputs such as sprays. Growers will be able to rotate multiple tools on the highly adaptable and configurable agriculture platform, depending on the day's work - for jobs such as spraying, weed control, mulching, mowing and crop analysis.

Are Cobots Safe to Work Side by Side with Humans?

Human-centric manufacturing puts a high requirement for safety in production because machines work closely with human operators.

Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on Collaborative Robots (Cobots)

Thursday 13 October 2022 - The Key Driver for the New Industrial Transition? In this webinar, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Yulin Wang will talk about the critical enabling technologies used in collaborative robots, explain several key applications, and analyze how the market size will change in the next two decades.

Techman Robot — A Major Cobot Player

Techman Robot is one of the leading players in cobots, based in Taiwan. It is a subsidiary of Quanta Computer and was established in 2016. It has since grown to a size of around 1,000 employees and in 2020 opened offices in Alblasserdam, the Netherlands.

Pal Robotics

Pal Robotics is a Spanish robot specializing in mobile robots and social robots.

ABB — Cobots for Various Uses

ABB, one of the market leaders in the robotics industry, demonstrated their CRB 1500 cobot performing different tasks with different end effectors, such as picking, welding, and unlocking with keys at Automatica 2022.

Researchers Take Step Toward Developing 'Electric Eye'

Researchers have successfully designed a new type of artificial vision device that incorporates a novel vertical stacking architecture and allows for greater depth of color recognition and scalability on a micro-level.

Hyperspectral Imaging Enables Improved Machine Vision

Machine vision is increasingly important for many applications, such as object classification. However, relying on conventional RGB imaging is sometimes insufficient - the input images are just too similar, regardless of algorithmic sophistication. Hyperspectral imaging adds the extra dimension of wavelength to conventional images, providing a much richer data set.

ST Microelectronics

ST Microelectronics is a well-established manufacturer of semiconducting components, including image sensors and MEMS devices. It recently announced a short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensor based on quantum dots capable of detecting light at 1400nm, promising lower costs than the incumbent InGaAs technology.

Tibot Technologies

French start-up Tibot developed poultry robotics for growers. Tibot Technologies demonstrated its latest product T-Moov at FIRA 2021.

ADLINK

IDTechEx spoke to Mark Turner, AI, IOT, Edge & Embedded Computing Sales Director, UK & Ireland at ADLINK. They are a computer manufacturer, making industrial computing systems to open standards such as PICMG, COM Express, or ROS. They were displaying various industrial computing systems, including robotic control and vision systems.

Clearview Imaging

IDTechEx spoke to Sean Wood, Sales Director UK & Ireland for Clearview Imaging at their booth at Robotics & Automation 2021. They are a machine vision systems distributor based in Thame, UK, and demonstrated various industrial vision systems at their booth.

EcoRobotix

Swiss start-up, one of the most well funded agricultural robotics companies

Facial Recognition for Premature Babies

Researchers have designed a computer vision system that can automatically detect a tiny baby's face in a hospital bed and remotely monitor its vital signs from a digital camera with the same accuracy as an electrocardiogram machine.

Wyzo, The World's First Direct-Drive Sidebot

Wyzo can work safely side-by-side with humans with zero protective barriers or performance compromises. Ideal for lightweight applications with a payload up to 1.1lbs, Wyzo is suitable for the food & beverage, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, electrical and electronics sectors.

Welcome Wyzo - First Sidebot for High-Speed Collaborative Automation

Wyzo - the world's first high-speed pick-and-place sidebot - is now available for companies making their first steps into automation, as well as for large manufacturers looking for unrivalled versatility.

Specim

Specim is a leading supplier of hyperspectral imaging equipment, covering spectral regions from the visible out to long-wave infra-red (LWIR).

LuxC

LuxC is an early stage Danish company that is utilizing LiDAR for ground support equipment at airports. IDTechEx attended a presentation by LuxC at Photonics Plus conference 2021.