Humans have long been masters of dexterity, a skill that can largely be credited to the help of our eyes. Robots, meanwhile, are still catching up. Certainly there's been some progress: for decades ...

Many forces have conspired to create demand for machine vision pressure on suppliers to ship fewer defective parts, the growing sophistication of robotics Many forces have conspired to create demand ...

One of the biggest challenges for robots is something that humans can do so easily we don't even see it as a challenge. When we walk through our home if we see something like a mug on the table we can ...

Receive a 15% discount on “Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities” by ordering from www.elsevierdirect.com and using offer code 92839. Over the past two decades, machine vision has ...

When automated optical inspection (AOI) works, it is almost always preferable to human visual inspection. It can be faster, more accurate, more consistent, less expensive, and it never gets tired.

• Machine builders cannot rely upon a “one-sensor-fits-all” mentality. • Most common sensors today include standard photoelectric sensors, lasers, fiber-optic sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and vision ...