10.12.2009
- To find a flaw not larger than a few micrometers on a surface spanning several square meters is a difficult task. A northern German company took up the challenge and constructed an...
10.12.2009
- In the German Conergy factory four robots assemble solar cells to matrices. Smart cameras, integrated on the soldering heads of the robots, manage the precise position detection of...
10.12.2009
- Part unloading or robot-aided depalletizing are sought-after industrial applications for automating production processes, increasing capacity and cutting costs. When the parts to...
10.12.2009
- Engineering design software tools are well established in mechanical, optical or electrical engineering and many new products are first designed and optimized with such software...
10.12.2009
- Early 2009 "Team Itava" of the University of Potsdam Germany made the first place in the Senior Coaching Competition. The team had developed a smart camera which, compared to...
10.12.2009
- The processing power of computers may have improved by many orders of magnitude since the computer was first invented but the way in which we interact with such devices has changed...
10.12.2009
- Allied Vision Technologies (AVT)'s new range of GigE cameras, the Prosilica GX-Series, combines high-speed and high-resolution. Running at 240 MB/s data rate, the GX-Series are the...
10.12.2009
- Over the last decade, the vision industry has produced a variety of "all in one" smart camera solutions to address a range of optical inspection needs, from elegant pass/fail...
- Point Grey announced the official release of its FlyCapture 2.0 software development kit (SDK), the next generation of its popular FlyCapture image acquisition and camera control...
Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH - Hamamatsu Photonics has announced that in Spring 2010, they will release the new ORCA-D2, a new high-sensitivity camera for simultaneous dual wavelength imaging that features two...
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