Machine Vision News

  1. 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. 

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

     

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 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. 

  8. 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. 

  9. Machine-Learning To Predict The Performance Of Organic Solar Cells 1/28/2021

    Imagine looking for the optimal configuration to build an organic solar cell made from different polymers. How would you start? Does the active layer need to be very thick, or very thin? Does it need a large or a small amount of each polymer? Knowing how to predict the specific composition and cell design that would result in optimum performance is one of the greatest unresolved problems in materials science.

  10. Light-Based Processors Boost Machine-Learning Processing 1/8/2021

    An international team of scientists have developed a photonic processor that uses rays of light inside silicon chips to process information much faster than conventional electronic chips. Published in Nature, the breakthrough study was carried out by scientists from EPFL, the Universities of Oxford, Münster, Exeter, Pittsburgh, and IBM Research – Zurich.