A marine robot designed and built by University of Limerick (UL; Limerick, Ireland) researchers was recently deployed to explore wrecks of The Aud and WW1 U-Boat, UC42 outside Cork Harbor.

A startup company established by a team that includes several alumni from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering (Cambridge, UK) has developed technology intended to help shoppers buy clothes online.

According to a news item posted on the Consumer Reports site by Donna Tapellini, the new Apple iPad can run significantly hotter than the earlier iPad 2 model when running an action game.

A team of archaeologists have captured images of a first-century tomb in Jerusalem using remote visual inspection (RVI) equipment from General Electric (Fairfield, CT, USA).

Researchers at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) are working with major high street retailers in the UK in a project that uses 3-D body scanners to help the retailers understand the size and shape of boys and girls in different age groups.

Engineers at e-con Systems (Ballwin, MO, USA) have created a stereo vision camera reference design based on a Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX, USA) DM370 series processor.

Engineers working on a European program called Nexray aim to develop pocket-sized x-ray sources and x-ray detectors.

A group of scientists led by Dr. David Williams of Arizona State University (Phoenix, AZ) has produced the first global geologic map of Io, the innermost large moon of Jupiter.

A new webcast from Vision Systems Design is to focus on how machine-vision systems are being developed and deployed in the food and beverage industries.

Engineers at Toshiba Imaging (Irvine, CA, USA) are working with counterparts at ISee3D (Toronto, Canada) to develop a 3-D digital video microscope using a single Toshiba IK-HD1, 3-chip CCD hi-definition camera.

An associate professor at the University of Arizona’s (Tucson, Arizona, USA) department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robot that could be used for defense and security applications.

A team of researchers from Chipworks (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has torn down the Apple iPad to reveal the imaging devices that have been incorporated into it.

Engineers at Volvo (Gothenburg, Sweden) have implemented a vision and radar system into the new Volvo V40 that aims to reduce injuries caused to pedestrians hit by automobiles.

Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America climbed five per cent in 2011 to nearly $1.9 billion, according to figures released by AIA (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), the industry’s global trade group.