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Photoneo has been listed by StartUs Insights among 3 top 3D scanning startups developing superior automation solutions for the logistics sectors, thus conquering other 59 companies.

We won the national round of the Central European Startup Awards! Find out more in this Forbes article (in Slovak).

Photoneo has been listed among the top 10 AI startups in Central and Eastern Europe with the most published funding according to Crunchbase. Check out this article by Nanalyze.

Photoneo’s MotionCam-3D has received the Platinum Award in the “Cameras – 3D” Category of The Vision Systems Design 2019 Innovators Awards program, as the only product winning the Platinum Award this year!

Press release by Vision 2018 organizers (Stuttgart, 6-8 November 2018) on Photoneo winning the Vision Award for its MotionCam-3D.

On April 10 2018, Photoneo ® was presented with a bronze-level award in the “Cameras – 3D” Category for its PhoXi ® 3D Scanner product family at the Fourth Annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards presentation, held during AIA The Vision Show in Boston, MA

Two teams using Photoneo’s vision system were among the eight teams from all around the world that made it to finals at the ARC2017. NimbRo team from Germany won the fantastic 2nd place and the team NAIST-Panasonic from Japan the 6th place.

Our CTO Tomas Kovacovsky among Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in 2017

Our CEO Jan Zizka among 100 leaders of change in 2015

Manual singulation and sorting of parcels become a thing of the past. Check out Photoneo take on AI-powered solutions that help companies process huge, unstructured loads of parcels in this article published in The Robot Report.

Automated bin picking has crossed its own limits. Photoneo developed its Bin Picking Studio 1.4 to push the world of automated bin picking to an entirely new level. How does it do it? Find out in the August issue of MVPro, p. 38-39.

Vision Systems Design elaborates on novel sensors that power 3D imaging cameras and applications, including Photoneo mosaic CMOS image sensor. Read the July/August issue and learn how the sensor works.

Photoneo AMR Phollower is a universal mobile platform with many uses cases. IFR (International Federation of Robotics) reports on how Phollower is deployed in a hospital in Slovakia to help its staff transport drugs and other medical material. Read the article and learn about Phollower and its main features.

Yet another article on Photoneo depalletization solution published in DC Velocity. Learn about AI-powered depalletization and what advantages it can provide you.

The growing demand for fast supply-chain processes has reached yet another niche market: a so-called depalletization. What is the difference between the AI-powered depalletization solution by Photoneo and classic depalletization and delayerization solutions? What can you gain by implementing a depalletizer that uses robotic intelligence? Find out in this article published in SupplyChainBrain.

After the release of the PhoXi Control application version 1.2, Photoneo was busily working on Photoneo Localization SDK 1.3 to bring the benefits of the recent improvements to end users and to Bin Picking Studio 1.4. Check out the June issue of Inspect.

Deploying 3D machine vision in crop cross breeding programs? Find out more about the UK’s National Physical Laboratory‘s project that uses Photoneo PhoXi 3D Scanners for automated crop scanning and 3D data analysis. Check out the June issue of MVPro, p. 26-27.

What is depalletization and how does Photoneo AI-powered Depalletizer differ from classic depalletization and delayerization solutions? What advantages does it offer and what are the secrets to success? Check out our latest article published in The Robot Report.

Automa, a Czech magazine on automation technologies, interviews Photoneo’s Branislav Pulis, VP of Sales & Marketing. He talks about Photoneo and what is behind its success (the article is in Czech). Check out the April issue, p. 25 - 26.

Tech Briefs mentions Phollower 100 as one of the ways to help fight the coronavirus by safely distributing hospital material in quarantine zones without personal contact.

MVPro announces the release of Bin Picking Studio 1.4.0, summarizing the main new features and upgrades.

Emerging Europe discusses the current and future situation in the CEE region in terms of the labour situation and deployement of automation solutions. What is Photoneo’s stance on the topic? Discover in this article.

Adrian Kratky, Director of Robot Vision at Photoneo, will guide you through the basic types of bin picking applications, the most common challenges and the latest advancements in the field. What role does a high-level 3D vision play in a successful bin picking? Find answers to all this and much more in this article published in Vision Spectra, spring 2020 issue.

Vision Systems Design explains how Photoneo’s proprietary mosaic shutter CMOS image sensor works, in what way it is revolutionary and how it enables the MotionCam-3D to capture objects in motion.

Laser Focus World discusses Photoneo’s revolutionary, high-speed 3D image-capture technique, 3D vision products and smart solutions for industrial automation. In what way are they novel and what are the target applications? Find out in the article.

This High-Tech Trends article explains why Photoneo is the leading solutions provider in the field of 3D machine vision, robot intelligence and smart automation. What challenges do Photoneo solutions solve and what innovations do they offer? Find out in the article.

Learn how Stanford University, Columbia University and Google combine AI with Photoneo’s PhoXi Scanner to teach a robot to assemble objects.

A one-page article on Phollower 100, Photoneo's autonomous mobile platform for transport of materials in factories, hotels, hospitals, warehouses and other large spaces. Learn what it can do in the December 2019/January 2020 issue of MVPro.

Check out this article on the importance of 3D cameras for industrial automation, published in Magyar Elektronika (article is in Hungarian).

Photoneo solutions appeared in two articles of Imaging & Machine Vision Europe, February/March issue. Learn how the PhoXi 3D Scanner is used for scanning wheat in crop breeding (p. 12-14) and about the importance of superior vision for robots working in warehouses (p. 28-30).

Photoneo has been listed by Startuptips among the top 6 startups using AI. Check it out!

Saber1 Technologies, one of the leading suppliers of top quality industrial imaging equipment, has expanded their product offerings with supplies from Photoneo.

Startup Tips lists 10 European tech startups to watch in 2020, including Photoneo.

James Carroll from Vision Systems Design looks at the latest high-speed 3D sensing technologies and the speeds at which structured light and confocal imaging products available today acquire 3D data. He also talks about Photoneo’s “Parallel Structured Light” technology, the MotionCam-3D and PhoXi 3D Scanners in Part 2. You can find the article also in the November/December 2019 Issue of Vision Systems Design.

The article covers traditional 3D sensing techniques and then moves on to Photoneo's revolutionary Parallel Structured Light technology, explaining where its novelty resides. Check it out in the November 2019 issue of Inspect (in German).

What is it all about? Photoneo's endeavour, mission and vision wrapped up in this article published at startuptips.com.

Forbes listed Photoneo among 10 companies with the greatest potential to become the most successful Slovak company over the upcoming decade (the article is in Slovak).

Check out this Imaging and Machine Vision Europe's article by Greg Blackmann who looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data, including Photoneo's "Parallel Structured Light" technology. October/November issue, p. 20.

What strategies do machine vision firms employ when hiring staff and what is on the horizon in the machine vision for the coming year? Read Photoneo's contributions to the Vision Yearbook 2019/2020.

The article presents a case study describing a bin picking system for the automation of hot forming and laser cutting processes developed by Photoneo. Get more details in the October Issue of Inspect, or in the October/November issue of PhotonicsViews under https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phvs.201970512.

Photoneo's "Parallel Structured Light" technology, the method behind MotionCam-3D, nicely summarised in the Supplement of the Automation magazine, September issue, page S9.

Fast area 3d surface inspection for 100% quality control. What are the traditional 3D inspection technologies and how does the new Photoneo solution differ from them? Find out in this Inspect article, September 2019 issue.

Photoneo has opened a new office in Shanghai, China, which was accompanied by exhibiting at one of the biggest trade fairs for industrial automation in Shanghai. Find our more in this article in Slovak.

Photoneo has released Bin Picking Studio 1.2.0! Check out the August/September issue of Imagine & Machine Vision Europe.

Traditional 3D sensing methods, Photoneo's breakthrough Parallel Structured Light technology, industrial automation and future applications. Find out more in this PC Revue article, July 2019 issue.

Check it out in the magazine Oem Automatic!

Watch this VaT (Science and Technology) reportage about our Phollower 100 in Slovak.

Photoneo’ success featured in the Vision Systems Design magazine. Check out the June 2019 issue, p. 13-14.

Check out this article on Photoneo’s taylor-made 3D vision system for quality checks of air conditioners - an automated solution for more effective and economical production. Inspect, April 2019 issue, p. 38.

Branislav Puliš, Director of Sales and Marketing at Photoneo, talked to MVPro about our Bin Picking Studio, a fine-tuned, complete yet simple solution from one supplier. Why is it unique? Find out in Issue 14, p. 38.

Photoneo mentioned as one of the leading companies in provision of machine and robot vision technology for bin picking in the Imaging and Machine Vision Europe article on the vision solutions for robot bin picking. Check it out in the April/May 2019 issue.

Check out the inVISION article on Locator, our tool for fast picking of non-overlapping, randomly placed objects as well as for assembly and application of glues and sealants, in the March 2019 issue.

Read the article on the highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D Camera for scanning in rapid motion in the Sep. 2018 issue of the inVISION magazine.

Find our software Bin Picking Studio introduced in the June 2018 issue of the inVISION magazine.

The April 2018 Issue of the magazine Vision Systems Design includes article elaborating on one of our bin picking use cases, advancing automation of a production line at a hydraulic components manufacturer.

Report on Slovakia's 15 top scale-ups in 2017 by Neulogy, Slovak Alliance for Innovative Economy – SAPIE and EIT Digital

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