A3 Appoints Two to VP Positions

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) selected winners of the 2023 Joseph F. Engelberger Awards. Roberta Nelson Shea, global technical compliance officer for Universal Robotics, was selected...

Automate — the largest robotics and automation trade show in North America — will return in 2024 and continue as an annual event. McCormick Place in Chicago will host next year’s...

During its Annual General Meeting 2023, the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) confirmed the selection of Shahida Imani, CEO of Chromacity, to its board of directors. Imani is a chartered...

Stephen Streiffer was named director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Streiffer serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October. Streiffer...

The MI.RA/OnePicker from Comau is an automated perception-based piece picking solution for industrial sorting applications. Using AI, the hardware agnostic solution pairs vision technology with...

AMADA WELD TECH’s laser welding integrator packages were designed for integration into larger automation lines. The packages include a combination of laser, beam delivery, machine vision, and...

The IQ Lens™ System from Theia Technologies is a vision system including a motorized lens, motor control board, average calibration data, and software with graphical interface (GUI). The IQ...

The Zebra FS42, Aurora™ Software Suite, 3S40, and 3S80 from Zebra Technologies Corporation are industrial automation solutions for manufacturers. The Zebra FS42 is a fixed industrial scanner...

Technological advances have resulted in new, higher-quality sensors that enable machine vision cameras to deliver greater features and functionality at a lower cost than ever before. These factors...

Images are produced by many means: cameras, x-ray machines, electron microscopes, radar and ultrasound. They are used in the entertainment, medical, scientific and business industries; for security...

Light is a versatile tool for investigating physical and chemical processes in nature. Any specific system being analyzed may, through the light it emits or reflects, communicate information about...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

Chroma Technology produces machine vision, thin-film interference filters with extremely durable sputtered coatings in various form factors and sizes that work in a wide range of applications....

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Lumispot Tech has developed a series of machine vision inspection lasers, primarily encompassing illumination light sources and structured light sources such as line lasers. These are mainly used in...

With the rapid advances in multispectral cameras and lighting, the range of applications continues to expand. As the camera technology improves, multispectral lighting becomes even more important in...

Vision and imaging technology is critically important to the automation solutions that are driving improvements in our lives. The capabilities of hardware and software are enabling some of the most...

Advancements in sensor technologies have introduced new requirements for the imaging lenses used with them. These developments make understanding the impact of manufacturing tolerances on lens...

Additional Questions & Answers from the webinar are below Speakers: 3-D Vision for Industrial Robot Guidance Clay Flannigan Manager, Robotics and Automation Engineering ...

A fundamental value proposition for machine vision can be seen in the ubiquitous implementation of automated inspection applications over a wide range of industrial use cases. Yet, challenges in...

A helium-neon (HeNe) laser is a type of gas laser that emits visible red light at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. It operates based on the principle of stimulated emission of photons from excited helium...

A diode laser is a type of laser that uses a semiconductor diode as the active medium to generate coherent light. Semiconductor diodes are electronic devices that conduct electricity primarily in one...

A blue diode laser is a type of semiconductor laser that emits light in the blue wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically between 400 and 500 nanometers. Diode lasers are compact,...

A fiber laser is a type of laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions such as erbium, ytterbium, or neodymium. Fiber lasers generate coherent light through...

It's a VISION takeover on Photonics Spectra Now! We're bringing you the latest from VISION 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany while the event is still happening. Machine vision takes center stage as we...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we give you an in-depth look at the relationship between researchers and scientists at the University of California Davis, and surgeons and clinicians at nearby...

Tune into this month's edition of Light Matters for 'Part 1' of an exclusive interview with SPIE CEO, Eugene Arthurs, as he speaks about his upcoming retirement. We’ll also take you to Rochester,...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

A machine vision system is an integrated combination of hardware and software components designed to capture, process, and analyze images to perform automated inspection, measurement, and quality...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified and D&B DUNS # 113515303 Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering,...

Cameras from The Imaging Source are used in many areas of everyday life: in science, industry, medicine, office, traffic engineering, the food industry, the pharmaceutical industry and the media...

Cameras are indispensable in automation. With more than 25 years of experience and subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, South Korea and the UK as well as offices in Europe and Asia, IDS Imaging...