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NSF Grant to Advance Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Precision Agriculture With a five-year, $26 million grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (ERC IoT4Ag). The center, which is headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, unites faculty and students from the University of Pennsylvania; Purdue University; the University of California, Merced; and the University of Florida with government and industry
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. Establishes Subsidiary WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. announced the establishment of a wholly owned subsidiary to accelerate the development of its holographic-vision intelligent robots and fabless semiconductor businesses. The subsidiary is Lixin Technology Co. Ltd., and with...
Cepton Promotes Ramachandran to CMO Cepton Technologies has announced the promotion of T.R. Ramachandran to chief marketing officer. In his new position, Ramachandran will take on an expanded role to advance the company’s product and corporate market efforts, as well as business...
£5.5M Grant Will Create Production Line Nanoscale Error Sensors Researchers from the University of Huddersfield and the University of Southampton have been awarded £5.5 million in funding for a five-year research project to accelerate the development of Industry 4.0 techniques for nanoscale metrology. The...
Army Researchers Advance Drone Swarm Learning Capabilities U.S. Army researchers have developed a reinforcement learning approach that will allow swarms of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles more consistent performance when executing mission objectives. Reinforcement learning provides a way to control...
Nanotronics Launches Nanotronics Health Nanotronics, a science technology company and manufacturer of advanced imaging systems combining robotics, optical microscopy, and machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms, announced it has formed a health care technology subsidiary,...
Luminar Bolsters Global Automotive Team Luminar has announced an expansion of leadership as it enters its next phase of growth in automotive, onboarding five top industry executives. Over the next 18 months, the company will be scaling its technology into series production, starting with...
MVTec Partners with Russian Camera and Machine Vision Systems Company CameraIQ MVTec Software GmbH has formed a distribution partnership with CameraIQ, a leading camera and machine vision systems distributor in Russia. The partnership will advance MVTec’s international growth, increasing its presence and visibility among...
Cameras Record Object Density More Accurately Crowd counting — the process of obtaining information on the density or number of objects such as vehicles or people — can benefit from the same deep learning techniques that have been used for image and video processing. Scientists at...
Scalable Approach to Lidar Could Propel Autonomous Vehicles, Other Tech A silicon chip with a serpentine optical phased array (SOPA), developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, could improve the resolution and scanning speed of lidar systems while reducing bulkiness, making them scalable for a range...
Beep and Local Motors Announce Strategic Partnership Beep, a Florida-based autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service provider, and Local Motors, a digital vehicle manufacturer, have announced a strategic partnership and new reseller agreement. The collaboration is intended to significantly expand the number of...
AI Chip Lends Credence and Application to Analog in-Memory Computing Relying on an analog circuit, a new AI chip from imec and GlobalFoundries can perform in-memory computations with an energy efficiency 10 to 100 times greater than those that use a traditional digital accelerator. The chip, called AnIA (for...
VISION 2020 Canceled Due to COVID-19 Messe Stuttgart has announced that the VISION 2020 trade show will not take place. The organizers made the announcement to exhibitors July 7 after extensive talks. “In the discussions held, it became apparent that VISION cannot be held this...
Immervision Unveils InnovationLab Immervision, a developer and licensor of optics and imaging technology, announced the opening of its InnovationLab for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and ODMs (original design manufacturers). The lab provides a way for customers to develop...
CrowdVision Merges with iinside Crowd analytics company CrowdVision Ltd. has announced that it has merged with California-based company iinside, a leader in lidar-based indoor motion detection and analytic solutions. The combined company, CrowdVision Inc., will be led by David...
Self-Driving Cars That Recognize Free Space Can Better Detect Objects Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have demonstrated that they can significantly improve detection accuracy in self-driving cars by helping the vehicle recognize what it does not see. Self-driving vehicles use 3D data from lidar to...
Using Deep Learning, Researchers Automate UAV-Based Land Mine Detection Researchers at Binghamton University, who previously developed a method for detecting “butterfly” land mines using low-cost, commercial drones equipped with multispectral and infrared cameras, are now focusing on automated detection of...
BitFlow Expands Business, Partners with Tietech BitFlow, an international designer of frame grabbers for powering machine vision systems, announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with ITANZI, a core company of Tietech Co. Ltd., headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. With this...
Raptor Photonics Appoints New General Manager Raptor Photonics announced that Liam Mulholland joined the company as general manager. Mulholland will be responsible for managing all day to day business activities and implementing effective business strategies. He has previously held leadership...
Sony Image Sensor Comes with Built-In AI Sony Corp. has presented the world’s first image sensors with built-in artificial intelligence, saying the technology will make data-gathering tasks faster and more secure. Calling it the first of its kind, Sony said the technology would give...
Boston Dynamics Partners with Vinsa to Build Models for Visual AI Workflows Boston Dynamics has announced a partnership with computer vision company Vinsa. The collaboration aims to bring new visual AI use cases to Spot, Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robotic platform, as well as other robotics using visual AI. Currently...
Vision Ventures Appoints Yates as Director Vision Ventures has announced the appointment of Chris Yates to the role of director. Yates will support corporate transactions for both buy- and sell-side client projects, working in tandem with the existing team. Chris Yates, director of Vision...
FRAMOS Opens Branch in Croatia FRAMOS will open a new branch office in Zagreb, Croatia, on May 4. The office is in addition to its existing research, development, and production facility in Cakovec. The expansion will allow for support for projects in the region. FRAMOS has...
MVTec Opens Subsidiary in China MVTec Software GmbH has opened a branch near Shanghai, China. The company has been operating in the Chinese machine vision market for more than 10 years. It intends to increase its presence within the country, along with sales partner Daheng...
Color-Measuring Device May Speed Processes A method using the color intensity of light to measure chemical concentrations may soon help speed the processes for developing medications, printers, and other products. A team from Purdue University created the new approach for using a...
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