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Article: Machine vision sensors, systems penetrate new realms. (Product Focus: Machine Vision).
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Seeing usually means believing, but it less often means perceiving. Though this remains all too true for human eyes, their mechanical counterparts are becoming increasingly sophisticated, efficient, intelligent, network enabled and, yes, affordable. These and other improvements are fueling the advance of machine vision solutions into settings where they were previously thought to be unusable or prohibitively expensive. This increases the wide variety of situations where machine vision devices can be used and sets the stage for future innovations.
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