Recently announced was a partnership between Walmart and Bossa Nova Robotics to bring shelf-scanning inventory robot vision systems to about 1,000 stores across the US. The goal is to eliminate overhead costs, reduce human error and ultimately eliminate the painful task for workers. It was [...]
In the United States the unemployment rate is at its lowest in nearly fifty years. As a result, the need to automate bin picking is urgent. In the U.S., where 38% of the manufacturing labor force moves parts between bins and manufacturing machines, 500,000 jobs remain unfilled. […]
Not to be confused with meteorology, metrology is the science of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, which is crucial in linking human activities. Interesting fact – modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution’s political motivation to standardize units in France when a length standard taken [...]
Most vehicles sold today come with lane departure warning systems that alert drivers when their car is about to veer out of the lane and warns them to get back into the lane. That is the basic idea, but there are several versions of lane departure vision systems available now; [...]
The advent of online shopping ushered into homes across the globe, a revolution in convenience. No longer do consumers have to travel to a store to browse items and make a purchase. Instead, the store would come to them digitally with a click of a button. In the past two [...]
In the realm of industry, machine vision (MV) is a form of technology and method used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as process control and robotic guidance. It’s a term encompassing a large number of technologies, software and hardware products, integrated systems, actions, methods and [...]
It used to be, that people believed that the eye emitted invisible light rays that struck the world outside, causing it to become visible to the beholder. We now know that isn’t the case, but, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be a perfectly good way to see. In fact, that [...]
Although it’s a relatively recent marine research tool, underwater video monitoring in marine environments is becoming more widespread as the technology improves. Since the 1950’s it’s been used to monitor marine plankton, fish behavior and freshwater biodiversity. For the most part these video systems have been operated in clear-water environments, [...]
In 2013, on the streets of Parma, Italy, an autonomous vehicle successfully navigated a route on a public roadway without a driver. The course was relatively short, but, it did include a series of complex traffic scenarios, roundabouts, merging traffic lanes, lights and pedestrian crossings. This was accomplished using a [...]
With todays’ advancements in technology, emergency personnel and government agencies are now able to capture images of structural damage using digital aerial cameras. These digital aerial images or photogrammetry, are highly valuable in situations of a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or flood. […]
