Vision Systems

Collaborative Robots Drive Workforce Return in Auto Industry

Collaborative robots (cobots) are reshaping automotive manufacturing by enabling safe, flexible, and efficient human-robot collaboration across tasks like assembly, screwing, and polishing, thanks to advanced force sensing, AI-driven vision, and intuitive programming. As electric vehicle production grows and factories seek greater agility, cobots offer a scalable solution, with their market projected to expand significantly through 2045.

Emerging Smart Sensor Applications in Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial Internet of Things sensor technology (IIoT) seeks to enable greater industrial automation, improved worker safety, and streamlined maintenance planning. From cameras, LiDAR, and radar for machine vision in robotics, to skin patches and miniaturized gas sensors in smart personal protection equipment, emerging IIoT applications present growth opportunities for a variety of sensor technologies.

Hinalea Imaging

Hinalea Imaging is a hyperspectral imaging technology provider founded in 2024 and based in CA, USA. Hinalea is a spin-out of the hyperspectral imaging business unit from TruTag Technologies and provides high-resolution, handheld, autonomous hyperspectral cameras. Hinalea aims to provide imaging solutions to the medical diagnostics, precision agriculture, food safety, and consumer goods markets. IDTechEx spoke with European Sales Director, Kevin Lynch, at the SPIE Sensors + Imaging exhibition in Edinburgh, UK.

ADAS & Autonomous Cars: A US$500 Million Opportunity for LWIR Cameras

Autonomous emergency braking (AEB) is one of the most important ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) features a vehicle can have. Studies have shown that pedestrian crash risk is reduced by 25-27% and pedestrian injury crash risk by 29-30% through the implementation of AEB.

Teledyne FLIR

This profile focuses on Teledyne FLIR's VOx thermal cameras in the automotive market.

Ambarella

Ambarella is a fabless semiconductor company, based in Silicon Valley. It has a long history of designing chips for video processing, used in applications like digital camcorders and surveillance systems. It is now embracing AI in its products and enabling many new applications in the video processing space with its edge AI chips. IDTechEx visited Ambarella in Santa Clara where they discussed Ambarella's automotive technologies.

Electromagnetic Metamaterials Market to Approach US$15B by 2034

Metamaterials use regular engineered patterns of subwavelength structures to interact with waves. Electromagnetic metamaterials promise to have transformative effects within the fields of optics and telecommunications. They could make biometric recognition cheaper and more accurate, make virtual reality more immersive and comfortable, and facilitate high-speed mobile internet with zero signal blackspots, yet adoption is in its infancy.

Here's Why the SDV Market Will Be Worth US$700 Billion by 2034

The SDV and AI Cars market is set to be worth over US$700 billion by 2034, representing around 20% of the global car market, according to IDTechEx's "Software-Defined Vehicles, Connected Cars, and AI in Cars 2024-2034" report.

Hailo

Hailo is an Israeli start-up that designs artificial intelligence (AI) inference chips for edge devices. IDTechEx spoke with Yosi Brosh, Product Marketing Manager.

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.