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    Researchers shot high speed video to capture how Black Woodpeckers free their beaks when they get them stuck will excavating wood.
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    AI-Driven Robots Handle High-Speed Logistics Sorting and Depalletizing

    Steve Kinney
    May 11, 2023
    Robotic system from Plus One Robotics incorporates a robot, AI-based software, and remote supervisor software.
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    Environment and Agriculture

    John Deere Uses Machine Vision and Machine Learning to Automate Agriculture

    Linda Wilson
    May 5, 2023
    The company envisions incorporating the technologies into equipment it sells in other industries.
    Figure 1: IDS NXT is a comprehensive AI-based vision system consisting of intelligent cameras plus software environment that covers the entire process from the creation to the execution of AI vision applications. (Photo courtesy of IDS Imaging Development Systems.)
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    Challenges and Emerging Applications for Deep Learning/AI

    Chris Mc Loone
    Feb. 20, 2023
    Developers are working to overcome challenges—such as cost and availability of training data—to implement deep learning in machine vision applications.
    LUCID Vision Labs Helios2 Wide ToF camera.
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    3D Imaging—What’s Ahead?

    Chris Mc Loone
    Feb. 16, 2023
    3D imaging has been with us for a while now, but in terms of use cases, we are still discovering new places for this vision/imaging method to be used.
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    AI Vehicle Inspection with Ultra-High-Resolution Cameras

    Yasuo Baba
    Feb. 7, 2023
    Automated inspection of rental cars is now possible using a combination of machine learning and high resolution sensors.
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    2023 SPIE Startup Challenge Finalists to Showcase Innovative Photonics Technologies in Healthcare and Deep Tech

    Jan. 18, 2023
    The SPIE Startup Challenge is an entrepreneurial pitch competition for new businesses that utilize optics and photonics to create innovative products, applications, and technologies...
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    Life Sciences

    2023 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship Awarded to Arutyun Bagramyan

    Jan. 18, 2023
    The annual award of $75,000 supports interdisciplinary problem-driven research and provides opportunities for translating new technologies into clinical practice for improving...
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    SPIE Announces Finalists for 2023 Prism Awards

    Jan. 18, 2023
    The 24 companies, across eight categories, will be honored during a February 1, 2023, gala evening at SPIE Photonics West.
    ZeroEyes
    ZeroEyes’s proprietary software will be layered on top of SEPTA’s existing security cameras. It will identify brandished guns and dispatch alerts to safety personnel and local law enforcement as fast as three to five seconds after detection.
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    PA Transit Authority to Deploy AI Gun Detection System

    Chris Mc Loone
    Jan. 13, 2023
    To decrease response times to incidents at which a gun is brandished, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is rolling out a pilot program involving AI...