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The future of Machine Vision
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- 2016first covered
- 9 Dec 2025latest update
- 4linked technologies
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All 105 articles on Machine Vision
- Sci-fi adaptive camouflage gets an upgrade with synthetic Octopus skinIndustry and manufacturing
- Dyson’s massive Strawberry farm ferris wheel boosts yields by 250 percentRobotics
- Automated cyborg Cockroach factory can churn out a bug a minuteIndustry and manufacturing
- Microsofts new Copilot experiment sees everything on your screen that you doAI and intelligence
- New study on AI in education finds students get lazy and learn lessOpinion
- Meta thinks AI needs a body to be truly intelligentRobotics
- Meta shows off Sapiens its foundation human vision model for AIAI and intelligence
- Google advances AI vision with launch of Project AstraAI and intelligence
- Deepmind shows off Project Astra AI watching OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o launchAI and intelligence
- ChatGPT gets a major chatty flirty upgrade as OpenAI rolls out new modelAI and intelligence
- Luxury fashion brands test smartphone virtual try on techVirtual worlds
- A ball of brain cells on a chip just learned maths and speech recognitionAI and intelligence
- Watch as these playful autonomous drones chase down a human in a forestRobotics
- Researchers create noisy neural networks to foil AI adversarial attacksSecurity and privacy
- A dead gradma story fooled Bing chat into helping solve a CAPTCHASecurity and privacy
- ChatGPT gains the power to see, hear, and speakAI and intelligence
- Invisible AI helps cars makers see what machines and humans do wrongAI and intelligence
- Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyoneAI and intelligence
- Prophesee and Qualcomm partner to bring neuromorphic computer vision to smartphonesAI and intelligence
- AI finally aces motion capture without all the mocap gadgetsAI and intelligence
- This revolutionary AI image enhancement system is revolutionising CCTVAI and intelligence
- Amazon unveils its new range of fully autonomous warehouse robotsRobotics
- This optical brain like computer chip analyses almost 2 billion images per secondComputing
- Europe’s new Artificial Intelligence Act can demand AI models are retrained and deletedAI and intelligence
- New AI computer vision system detects malware with staggering accuracySecurity and privacy
- Tesco selects central London for it’s first walk in walk out storeAI and intelligence
- Samsung’s new robot does all your housework and serves you wineRobotics
- Black box AI’s learn to express themselves so researchers can read their mindsAI and intelligence
- The US military found a way to use AI to turn humans into living sensor networksBiotech and enhanced humans
- Radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no dataAI and intelligence
- Apple iPhone 12 packs in Lidar to bring physical and virtual worlds closer togetherVirtual worlds
- Flying high Airbus shows off its 2030 and 2050 concept cabinsTransport and mobility
- BHS’s recycling robot is coming to help save the planetEarth and energy
- The Future of Privacy | Boussias, Greece | Matthew Griffin | Privacy and Data Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Full Speed Ahead | WIRED, UK | Matthew Griffin | WIRED Presenter and Keynote SpeakerArticles
- As Covid-19 lockdowns ease companies begin tracking employees with in-house tracking appsConnected society
- Baidu’s new AI creation creates videos from a single image with a single clickAI and intelligence
- Researchers say this AI can judge your personality from selfies aloneSecurity and privacy
- US researchers 3D printed mini nuclear reactors, complete with nuclear cores, in a labEarth and energy
- Baltimore becomes the first US city to be watched from the air 24/7Security and privacy
- Alphabet’s Everyday Robot project creates robots that learn without programmingRobotics
- Promising solar energy breakthrough could replace blast furnacesEarth and energy
- New machine vision system lets gym users ditch the wearablesAI and intelligence
- World’s most dexterous robot now solves Rubiks’ cubes one handedRobotics
- The Future of Sport 2030 | Decathlon, France | Matthew Griffin | Sports and Wellness Keynote SpeakerArticles
- World first after researchers create an AI made of glassAI and intelligence
- Next generation virtual influencers will be indistinguishable from humansVirtual worlds
- The DeepFake tech behind David Beckham’s viral malaria campaign explainedAI and intelligence
- This new AI uses both sight and sound to estimate depressionAI and intelligence
- Fully autonomous raspberry picking robot successfully completes field trialsRobotics
- 2,000 Chinese schools are using robots to give students daily health checksRobotics
- The “Godfather” of Deep Learning unveils what’s next in AIAI and intelligence
- Colour night vision breakthrough turns the darkest midnight into dayAI and intelligence
- Amazon’s AI reportedly tracks, monitors and automatically fires hundreds of employeesAI and intelligence
- China shows off its first official neurosurgery robotRobotics
- A US start up has created the world’s first fully autonomous vertical farmRobotics
- US proposes to regulate AI the same way it regulates weapons exportsSecurity and privacy
- Israel’s autonomous crane takes aim at the fully automated construction sites of the futureRobotics
- Windows are the perfect lens-less cameras for AI and VR headsetsAI and intelligence
- A robot taught itself how to identify and manipulate objects autonomouslyRobotics
- Collapsing bee colonies prompt researchers to build robo beesRobotics
- A controversial AI can allegedly reveal your personality from just a photoAI and intelligence
- Researchers use AI to turn smartphones into lab grade microscopesAI and intelligence
- Vertical farms edge closer to disrupting traditional agricultureEarth and energy
- AI can now restore your corrupted photos to their original conditionAI and intelligence
- MIT and DeepMind’s new AI can’t be tricked with weird lightingAI and intelligence
- AI can now beat polygraph tests to tell when you’re lyingSecurity and privacy
- AI can identify dangerous lung diseases as well as trained doctorsAI and intelligence
- AI can now identify your health problems but just looking at youBiotech and enhanced humans
- AI is helping create realistic “Fake news!” videos and it’s going to be a problemAI and intelligence
- Brace yourselves AI is about to make the “Fake News!” problem a whole lot worseAI and intelligence
- Elbit’s persistent surveillance drone can watch entire cities in real timeSecurity and privacy
- Companies want to use AI to judge your ‘Character’ from just a photoSecurity and privacy
- Dubai’s first Robocop starts active dutyRobotics
- Meet the new harvesting robots that can pick 10,000 apples an hourRobotics
- Amazon is on track be the world’s first fully automated fulfilment companyRobotics
- Locus’s new robots learn to navigate warehouses by themselvesRobotics
- Warehouse robot’s upgrade helps it pick goods at human speedRobotics
- Fast, deadly laser wielding underwater robots revolutionise fish farmingEarth and energy
- Artificial intelligence identifies skin cancer as well as trained doctorsAI and intelligence
- Descartes Labs new AI visual search tool lets you find everything on EarthAI and intelligence
- Scientists 3D print an Eagle eye camera that’s smaller than a human hairIndustry and manufacturing
- Google RAISR sharpens photos and gives you super visionAI and intelligence
- F-35 pilots will team with AI to control swarms of drones in mid flightRobotics
- Australia hails the end of passports as it rolls out biometrics at airportsSecurity and privacy
- Velodyne’s new miniature LiDAR means many more autonomous thingsAI and intelligence
- Point. Click. Create your own 3D avatar and put yourself in the gameVirtual worlds
- Walk in. Shop. Walk out. Amazon unveils its new cashless cashierless storeConnected society
- Technology and the future of privacyOpinion
- Facebooks new app gives your smartphone AI super powersAI and intelligence
- ISS SPHERE drones learn to see and fly around in space all by themselvesRobotics
- Silicon Valley and TNC use AI to monitor every catch in the PacificAI and intelligence
- Cornell’s new AI is cataloguing nature – starting with treesEarth and energy
- Australia’s Little Ripper search and rescue drone goes looking for sharksSecurity and privacy
- Skydio’s autonomous drone takes to the skiesTransport and mobility
- Google’s new AI image recognition software still has a Cock of the Rock problemAI and intelligence
- Stanford’s humanoid robotic diver recovers treasures from King Louis XIV’s flagshipRobotics
- Samsung uses IBM’s brain chip to build a digital eyeAI and intelligence
- One camera to watch an entire city, meet WAMISecurity and privacy
- Humanoid ATLAS robot crams millions of years of evolution into two yearsRobotics
- Robot surgeon STAR bests its human counterparts in world firstRobotics
- Rolls Royce plans to deploy fully autonomous cargo ships by 2020Transport and mobility
- Remodel your home using augmented reality at Lowe’sVirtual worlds
- The Creative Machines are comingOpinion
- The future of Media and EntertainmentOpinion
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