With its ability to help automate quality control, guide flexible pick-and-place systems, and simplify inventory tracking procedures, machine vision is of growing importance to industrial automation ...

Cognex announced fourth-quarter earnings per share of 27 cents from sales of $252 million. Wall Street was looking for 22 cents and $239 million, respectively.

Zebra reported Q4 sales of nearly $1.5 billion, a 10.6% increase from the prior year, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share ...

Next-generation steering technologies for lidar are making machine vision cheaper and more portable. Janelle Shane describes how these advances could apply to autonomous vehicles Edge case: The real ...

Machine vision is the focus of Machine Design’s Takeover Topic Event (Aug. 12-16, 2024). Covering the gamut of vision systems, the lineup includes case histories, trends and interviews with notable ...

Working on a machine vision project requires understanding each part of the system, including light sources, frame grabbers, and computers. Here is a primer on two essential machine-vision terms.

The Vision Tech Expo made its debut at Photonics West 2026, reflecting the growing importance of machine vision and imaging within the wider photonics ecosystem (Image: SPIE / Joey Cobb) Join 10,000+ ...

Every smartphone has a face recognition system or applications that find text on a photo and translate it. This is called "machine vision", a kind of combination of camera capabilities and artificial ...

A bioinspired robotic eye could inspire the next generation of autonomous vehicles, drones and industrial robots.

The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and ...