Zooming In On: is a brief, focused look at highlights and happenings in the various sectors of the machine vision industry. In this edition, the focus is on robotics, and includes an exciting new interactive machine vision/robotics exhibit put together by MVTec Software for the Deutches Museum (Munich, Germany), the recent announcement of SVS-Vistek's (Gilching, Germany) new CEO, a partnership between Ambarella (Santa Clara, CA, USA) and e-con Systems (Riverside, CA, USA) to launch a new robotics platform, and a collaboration between Orbbec (Troy, MI, USA) and HiWonder (Shenzhen, China) with a launch of two new education robots.
VSD Senior Editor Jim Tatum has more than 25 years experience in print and digital journalism, covering business/industry/economic development issues, regional and local government/regulatory issues, and more. In 2019, he transitioned from newspapers to business media full time, joining VSD in 2023.
