Highlights

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AI-Driven Robots Handle High-Speed Logistics Sorting and Depalletizing

May 11, 2023
Robotic system from Plus One Robotics incorporates a robot, AI-based software, and remote supervisor software.
Courtesy of John Deere
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Environment and Agriculture

John Deere Uses Machine Vision and Machine Learning to Automate Agriculture

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.)
Imaging Boards and Software

Challenges and Emerging Applications for Deep Learning/AI

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.
Cameras and Accessories

3D Imaging—What’s Ahead?

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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Cameras and Accessories

AI Vehicle Inspection with Ultra-High-Resolution Cameras

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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Non-Factory

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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Non-Factory

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.
Security, Surveillance, Transportation

PA Transit Authority to Deploy AI Gun Detection System

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...