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The market for robots that pick fruit is still in its early days, but newcomers are emerging, equipped with a range of photonics technologies
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    Veeco Releases New Sustainability Report

    Veeco Instruments Inc. released its latest Sustainability Report highlighting the company’s continued progress towards environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. This Sustainability Report, reflecting 2022...
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    Understanding the Role of Machine Vision in Industry 4.0

    Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing manufacturing as we know it. Built upon technologies integrating robotics, AI, machine learning, big data analysis, cloud computing, and sensors, this fourth industrial revolution is improving...
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    KUKA Mobile Robot at ProMat 2023

    At the ProMat 2023 manufacturing, distribution and supply chain equipment and systems show, KUKA Robotics demonstrated its KMP 600-S diffDrive mobile robot working in unison with a KR IONTEC robot in a Mujin cell for...
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    Solar Powered Ice Production and Solar Drying in Kenya

    In the SolCoolDry project, funded by the German Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, together with the company Innotech Ingenieursgesellschaft mbH and Kenyan...
  • The Aurora harvest assistant will navigate through the rows of trees in an apple orchard and detect and pick up fruit boxes and transport them to a defined unloading point autonomously in future Image courtesy of hochschule 21

    Autonomous Vehicles in the Orchard

    The Autonomous Orchard Assistant Altes Land (Aurora) is a small autonomous vehicle that can move independently around in the field, identify boxes of crops, know when they are full and pick them up and bring them to a specified location....
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    How Deep Learning Advances Machine Vision

    Machine vision is one of the most helpful automation technologies for many industrial workflows. While these object recognition systems can streamline quality control processes, guide autonomous robots and more, many still rely on basic rules-based...
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    Imaging Advance in Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease

    Twenty years ago the only sure way to know whether a person had Alzheimer’s disease was by examining the brain through autopsy, after death. Thanks to advances in research over the past few decades, lab and imaging tests are now available to...
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    Measurement of Space Optics and Structures

    Laser interferometry is a widely established method for measuring the shape and surface quality of large telescope mirrors. Dynamic Interferometry, developed by 4D Technology Corporation, is an improved method in which all measurement data is...
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    A Closer Look at Artificial Vision

    Computer vision has been around for decades, but the concept of artificial vision is relatively new as recent years have witnessed a rise in technology mimicking the functionality of biological eyes to replicate or enhance natural vision. Here we...
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    Measuring Aspheres with Next-Gen Solutions

    An aspheric lens, or sometimes known as an asphere, is a lens that’s not part of a sphere or cylinder and it can depart somewhat from a sphere. The more complex surface profile of an asphere not only reduces or eliminates spherical aberration...

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