Machine Vision News
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How Machine Vision Is Benefitting The Automotive Industry
3/9/2023
Machine vision is making its impact felt in every industry and that impact is only going to grow more and more dramatic. Let’s take a look at how it’s making its mark on the automotive industry.
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Bright Ideas — NASA's DART Deemed A Success, Cockroaches Get Their Comeuppance
10/5/2022
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, NASA's first attempt at using kinetic force for planetary defense was a success — and it was caught on camera by two of the most reputable space telescopes. Plus, researchers try once and for all to rid the world of cockroaches — with lasers.
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Bright Ideas — SDA Seeks Demo For Space-To-Aircraft Laser Communications, Cats & Coffee Latest Benefactors Of Laser Innovation
8/10/2022
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, the Space Development Agency (SDA) is again looking for a vendor to demo laser crosslinks between orbiting satellites and moving aircraft, France is trying out a new anti-drone laser weapon ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games, and Trumpf is taking the shipping crises into its own hands.
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Smart Vision Lights Secures Patent For DoAll Machine Vision Light Innovation
6/28/2022
Smart Vision Lights (SVL), a global leader in the design and manufacture of innovative LED illumination solutions, has received a patent for its latest machine vision light innovation and standout at the recent Automate 2022 conference and exhibit: the DoAll Light. The patent is the latest addition to the Smart Vision Lights portfolio of patented machine vision–related illumination technology.
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Pleora’s Visual Inspection System Ensures End-to-End Quality for DICA Electronics
5/31/2022
Pleora Technologies today announced that DICA Electronics Ltd (DICA) is deploying its Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis.
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Specim Highlights Complete And Easy-To-Deploy Spectral Imaging Platform At Automate 2022
5/31/2022
Specim, Spectral Imaging Ltd., demonstrates SpecimONE, a spectral imaging platform that makes it easy to create sorting applications without coding or in-depth knowledge of hyperspectral imaging.
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Bright Ideas — Congressional Researchers Question U.S. Pursuit Of Hypersonic Weapons, ISS To Test Space 'Nodes' For Quantum Communications
3/23/2022
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, a Congressional Research Service report raises the question of why the U.S. is ramping up hypersonic weapons R&D and whether it's the right move. Plus, the International Space Station will soon host a set of self-healing space "nodes" that will be tested in connecting quantum data transmitters and receivers.
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Bright Ideas: 10/20/21 — NIR/MWIR Advance Medical Imaging Of Tumors, Deep Tissue
10/19/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. In this week's edition, technicians no longer have to wait until nighttime to detect defects in solar panels, MOE lenses are making their case for replacement of refractive lenses, and robots with RF antennas and machine vision are finding lost things.
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Bright Ideas: 10/13/21 — U.S. Gets First Open-Access Silicon Carbide Fabrication Facility, Light Produced From "Nothing"
10/13/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, L3Harris landed an $18.4 million contract to continue providing its electro-optical sensor systems to the U.S. military, chalcogenide glasses became useful in the visible and UV spectrum, and a more practical, less harmful phosphorescent material is found in wood.
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Bright Ideas: 10/6/21 — 3D Hologram Display For Sub Warfare, UV LED Could Kill COVID-19 On Skin
10/6/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, a UK-based firm claims it has made the world's smallest quantum computer at just four qubits, scientists are using terahertz radiation to measure ice thickness on prawns, and laser-interference structuring (LIS) could be a viable alternative to existing and environmentally-unfriendly corrosion protection methods.