serva transport systems and in-situ Vision & Sensor Systems have developed a fully automated car parking system that makes use of more of the space in a parking garage by first identifying a vehicle and then transporting it to an empty parking slot using a self-guided robot trolley.

Engineers at Akeo Plus have developed a vision-based robotic system to automate the procedure of slashing prepared bread dough prior to baking for a large French bread manufacturer.

What could be more interesting than having a person who looks and thinks exactly as you do walking around the planet?

A new free one-hour webcast from Vision Systems Design will discuss a number of real world examples that will help engineers understand the keys to success with two-and-a-half dimensional (2.5D) vision-guided robotics.

Engineers at Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) have developed a tetrapod robot that is able to carry out investigative and recovery work in locations that are too risky for people to enter.

Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA) researchers have received $6m in grants to automate one of the most laborious and costly jobs in vineyards and apple orchards.

European engineers are developing a continuous, fully automatic vision-based robotic system to harvest both white and violet asparagus.

The 2012 VISION show in Stuttgart, Germany celebrated its 25^th anniversary on November 6^th to 8^th. The Vision Systems Design staff was on hand to learn about the latest product innovations, market trends, standards updates and more presented at the machine vision and image processing industry’s largest show.

Using EMVA-1288 data such as quantum efficiency, noise, and spectral characteristics, software CAD tools provide an interactive 3-D environment to model and analyze vision systems in an application-specific way.

At 18 years of age, many students are undecided about which university course to choose. I was one of those folks.

Researchers at the Department of Computer and Communications Engineering at the American University of Science and Technology (Beirut, Lebanon) have developed a vision system for a landmine detecting robot.

The Automated Imaging Association (AIA; Ann Arbor, MI, USA) is currently seeking candidates to fill four open seats on its board of directors between 2013 and 2014.