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Leader Greg Blackman


New beginnings T Teledyne-Flir analysis 4


Dimitrios Damianos and Eric Mounier at Yole Développement, and Chris Yates at Vision Ventures give their take on Teledyne’s $8bn acquisition of Flir


Brexit 8


Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson of UKIVA on what vision firms need to know to navigate through the UK and EU’s trade deal


Association news 10


Updates from the UK Industrial Vision Association and the European Machine Vision Association


Embedded vision 12


Greg Blackman on the effort that goes into developing embedded vision systems


Traffic


Keely Portway on imaging systems designed to look out for cyclists and pedestrians


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16 Artificial intelligence Packaging


Matthew Dale explores how vision is enabling smaller batch sizes to be processed on packaging lines


3D vision 26


Experts from Pickit, Fanuc, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US, and the UK’s Manufacturing Technology Centre give their views on the uptake of 3D vision in robot automation


Tech focus: image sensors Products


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Imec’s Paweł Malinowski speaks about the institute’s new quantum dot SWIR sensor


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The views of experts from AIT, MVTec, Irida Labs, and Xilinx discussing AI and vision


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he new year began with a bang – in the machine vision world at least – with the news that


Teledyne had bought Flir for $8bn, a deal that could see combined sales of $5bn. Teledyne now has imaging technologies that stretch from the visible into the thermal infrared, becoming one of the dominant forces in the machine vision market along with Cognex and Keyence. Tis issue has analysis and opinion on the deal (page 4) from Vision Ventures’ Chris Yates and from Dimitrios Damianos and Eric Mounier at Yole Développement. Te start of the year also saw new


trade rules come into force between the UK and Europe, which vision firms are having to adapt to. Te trade deal signed on 24 December is certainly a relief for the manufacturing sector and many firms that do business between the UK and EU. On page 8, the UK Industrial Vision Association’s Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson set out what vision companies need to know about trading under the new regulations. Elsewhere in this issue are articles


on embedded processing and the development effort that goes into building embedded vision products (page 12), how 3D vision can help increase uptake of robot automation (page 26), and a look at Imec’s new quantum dot SWIR sensor that promises to lower the price of SWIR imaging (page 28). While this winter continues to be


difficult for many countries grappling with the pandemic, the various vaccination programmes underway offer hope for more productive times ahead. Roll on summer!


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