ZEISS Ventures joins £1.7 million round for battery imaging startup Illumion
Cambridge spin-out Illumion images individual battery particles as they charge. The money funds its illumionONE and illumionX platforms.
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Machine vision & inspection AI
Industrial cameras, vision sensors, lighting and the AI models used for automated visual inspection. Product launches and deployments where vision replaces or assists a human inspector.
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October 2026
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- ABB adds AI Robot Trainer to OmniCore EyeMotion vision softwareABB Robotics
- Teledyne FLIR A8481 brings 1280 × 1024 MWIR resolution to the compact A-Series bodyTeledyne FLIR
- Prodrive's first Runix camera pairs a 105-megapixel sensor with 112fps readoutProdrive Technologies
- Leica and Cognex add AI defect detection to Enersight microscope softwareLeica Microsystems
- IDS adds IP69K uEye SFA to its uEye Live monitoring camera lineIDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
- Teledyne DALSA adds 32K resolution to Linea ML line scan camera familyTeledyne DALSA
- Leopard Imaging and Lumotive's Sirius Max pushes iToF depth sensing past 20 metersLeopard Imaging
- PiXARGUS ProfilControl 7 RubberFleX inspects rubber profiles with 1–8 camerasPiXARGUS
- Nikon robot vision system adds 3D tracking of conveyor workpieces without encodersNikon Corporation
September 2026
- e-con Systems to debut NetraVis 3D depth camera at VISION 2026e-con Systems
- Instruct3D launches Additive Build Intelligence platform for metal AMInstruct3D
- Prometeon taps Rockwell Automation and Tekna for automated tire inspectionRockwell Automation
- Keyence's new IV4-H vision sensor uses AI to test over 10,000 parameter combinationsKeyence
- Leopard Imaging's DragonFire thermal camera packs 40 mK sensitivity into a 58-gram moduleLeopard Imaging Inc.
- Cognex to acquire RealSense for about $500 million, adding 3D robotic perceptionCognex Corporation
- XIMEA to show 105-megapixel global shutter camera at VISION 2026XIMEA
- Teledyne to demo 100 Gbit/s semiconductor inspection imaging platformTeledyne Vision Solutions
- Livermore's camera system measures 3D-printed strands layer by layer while the part is still printingLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Fluke launches ii01 acoustic camera for finding leaks with an Android phoneFluke
- AT Sensors' IRSX-2 series packs thermal imaging and processing into one IP67 cameraAT Sensors
- Singular Photonics launches Litavis, a SPAD sensor that unifies imaging and timing on-chipSingular Photonics
- AMETEK Land's ImagePro V2 tracks moving targets across up to sixteen thermal camerasAMETEK Land
- Teledyne e2v expands Flash CMOS image sensor family to 1K and 8K resolutionsTeledyne e2v
- KITOV.ai unveils X-Prime for automated surface inspection of complex partsKITOV.ai
- Nidec debuts AI-powered RoboCam gear cutting tool inspection system at IMTS 2026Nidec Machine Tool America
- Dürr to fit Volvo's new Košice EV plant with x-wheel, x-light EOL inspectionDürr
- Prophesee opens pre-orders for Embra HD industrial event-based vision cameraProphesee
- QuantumDiamonds shows contact-free current imaging to enable inline chip inspectionQuantumDiamonds
- ivii's iriis vision core checks work steps against a trained 'ideal state'ivii
- Teledyne to acquire Varex Imaging in $1.1 billion cash dealTeledyne Technologies
August 2026
- Vision Components packs a 3.2 TOPS AI processor into a 65mm cameraVision Components
- UTPVision launches RoViCX robotic cell for low-volume part inspectionUTPVision
- IDS's Nion ToF camera enters series production with 1.2-megapixel depth sensorIDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
- Singular Photonics closes $2.15 million round, adds former Arm CTO to boardSingular Photonics
- UnitX AI inspection system cuts auto paint scrap rate from 18 percent to 1.6 percentUnitX
- AI vision system cuts EVVA lock-parts inspection time from 30 seconds to under 5Danube Dynamics
- Teledyne's Falcon4-CLHS global shutter cameras hit 1200 fps at 2.8 megapixelsTeledyne Vision Solutions
- Eddyfi launches Cypher, a portable ultrasonic inspection platform with TFM imagingEddyfi Technologies
- Allied Vision's SMR 10GigE camera hits 2,517 fps at Full HDAllied Vision
- SICK adds AI-powered inspection to its Nova 3D machine vision platformSICK
- Forza Silicon's ForzaFAST-581 hits 1,141 fps at full 4K with global shutterForza Silicon
- IDS adds Sony STARVIS 2 sensors to uEye FA rugged camera lineupIDS Imaging Development Systems
- Zebra rebrands Adaptive Vision machine vision suite as Aurora VisionZebra Technologies
July 2026
- Cognex In-Sight 3900 processes inspections 4X faster than prior systemsCognex Corporation
- Polysense raises $10.7M seed round for closed-loop AI inspection systemPolysense
- Himax launches hardware iToF depth decoder ICs for machine vision at 240 fpsHimax Technologies
- BMW Group moves Figure 03 into logistics sequencing at SpartanburgBMW Group
- RealSense D585 Pro depth camera delivers 2x depth quality gain, ships Q1 2027RealSense
- UnitX ships DeteX, an AI inspection camera that deploys in under 60 secondsUnitX
- Detection Technology's X-Panel 4386a delivers 90 fps peak in 430 × 860 mm flat panel formatDetection Technology
June 2026
- DAB-Embedded Axo2 camera spans nine sensor options with GMSL2 at 15 metersDAB-Embedded
- General Inspection's Gi-307 merges dimensional and surface inspection at 300 parts per minuteGeneral Inspection, LLC
- Pleora's iPORT GEV-TB pipes 22.5 Gbps of camera data into Thunderbolt portsPleora Technologies
- Optimax AURA K4D merges AI defect detection and interferometric gauging into a single robotic cellOptimax
- Emerson embeds SiMa.ai chip in industrial PCs for edge AI quality inspectionEmerson
- ORNL's Peregrine AI software flags 3D printing defects in real time without lab equipmentOak Ridge National Laboratory
- ibaCapture v5.7 integrates LAND thermal cameras for synchronized process analysisiba AG
- Cognex makes case for machine vision in data center asset decommissioningCognex
May 2026
- Allied Vision's 3DPIXA evo compact CXP line scan cameras pair 3D depth and RGB in one passAllied Vision
- SortService offers 100-percent machine vision inspection in three deployment modesSortService
- ORNL automates real-time thermal correction for large-scale composite 3D printingOak Ridge National Laboratory
- SHINING 3D's OptimScan Q12 HD hits 0.004mm accuracy with four camerasSHINING 3D
- Sony and TSMC plan joint venture for next-generation image sensorsSony Semiconductor Solutions
- Teledyne e2v Caiman module runs on less than 1W while imaging below 1 milliluxTeledyne e2v
- ZEISS Blockwise launches with MVTec HALCON at its image-processing coreZEISS
- A3 ratifies GigE Vision 3.0 with RoCEv2, enabling 400G-plus imaging bandwidthsAssociation for Advancing Automation