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University of Vermont Scientist Wins Prestigious Award for Evolutionary Robotics

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers was awarded to Dr. Joshua C. Bongard, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont.

4 Oct 2011

Microscan Introduces Vision HAWK Smart Camera to Inspect Packaging Process

Microscan, specializing in providing solutions in machine vision, barcode and lighting has introduced the Vision HAWK smart camera for inspection of packaging operations.

23 Sep 2011

UAV Imaging Equipment from Hood Technology Receives NIIRS-9 Rating

Hood Technologies are the pioneers in developing video-camera turrets for UAVs. They had started making them as early as 1998. The first video-camera turret that they developed was 800 g for use in small UAVs.

19 Sep 2011

PixeLINK Introduces Professional Industrial Cameras for Ultra-Precision Applications

PixeLINK has launched a new series of professional industrial cameras. The PL-H960 series of cameras have been exclusively designed to cater to industrial applications that require high degree of precision.

19 Sep 2011

PixeLINK Introduces Compact, Modular Machine Vision Industrial Camera

Canada-based PixeLINK has announced the addition of the PL-E950 CCD to its PL-E line of industrial cameras specifically designed for the microscope and machine vision manufacturers.

19 Sep 2011

Seiko Epson Introduces Vision Guide for Industrial Robots

Seiko Epson has unveiled the Vision Guide, an image processing system for high-speed and high-accuracy detection of the position, shape and alignment of operations that have been completed by industrial robots.

30 Aug 2011

Teledyne DALSA Displays Smart Camera Technology at Taipei International Industrial Automation Exhibition 2011

Teledyne DALSA, part of the Teledyne Technologies, will be exhibiting its smart cameras used for machine vision applications at the Taipei International Industrial Automation Exhibition 2011.

26 Aug 2011

Robots to the Rescue

Firemen may have some help from rescue robots in the near future. Rescue robots that are programmed to help evacuate people from a building on fire is what electrical engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are shooting for.

15 Aug 2011

A Robotic Swarm Wins Best Video Award

Robots perform the robotic mission impossible in this wonderful feat from European researchers. Three different kinds of robots must work together to reach their objective, a book on a high shelf. The exact location of the book is not known to the robots and they must work as a swarm to accomplish the mission.

15 Aug 2011

Willow Garage Announces One-Armed PR2 Robot

Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotics, has come up with a new PR2 robot for research applications. This model, the PR2 SE, has one arm and will cost you user $285,000. The robot development kit which has an updated sensor suit and a single can be upgraded with a second arm at a later date.

14 Aug 2011