FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Material Handling Industry of America and the Automation Technologies Council announce that ProMat and The International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show will co-locate in 2011.

FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced it will open a North American partner company—Specialised Imaging Inc.—in April 2010.

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--Sofradir has been awarded an additional EUR2.5 million contract to provide a second batch of 15-micron-pitch multilinear SWIR arrays for the space-borne Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--The GigE Vision camera interface standard that has been used by the machine-vision industry since 2006 has recently been updated and Version 1.2 is now available.

JANUARY 29, 2010--Vision System Technology, led by Kris Balch and Terry Guy, will provide customers with the latest technology in digital cameras, lighting, optics, and software.

JANUARY 29, 2010--Boulder Imaging and Basler Vision Technologies have entered into a distribution agreement for sales and marketing of Basler high-speed cameras. This partnership couples Boulder Imaging's digital video recording and analytic systems with Basler's line of high-speed cameras.

JANUARY 28, 2010--Adept Technology has received a $3.2 million order for high-precision robots from an international manufacturer of test automation equipment.

 JANUARY 22, 2010--Rusty Ponce de Leon, president of Phase 1 Technology (Deer Park, NY, USA) has been elected 2010 chairman of the Automated Imaging Association (AIA).

JANUARY 21, 2010--Microscan (Renton, WA, USA) invited a select group of key customers and media to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the dedication of its Nashua, NH Northeast Technology Center.

JANUARY 19, 2010--At the ITE Yokohama show, the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA) officially took ownership of the CoaXPress specification as the first step toward CoaXPress being published as an international standard.

JANUARY 14, 2010--Qioptiq has announced that after ten years as its CEO, Benoît Bazire has left the group in
agreement with Candover, the principal shareholders, to pursue alternative business opportunities.

JANUARY 13, 2010--DiCon LED has formed a new sales distributorship with Edmund Optics as worldwide distributor of DiCon's microscope LED illuminator product line.

JANUARY 13, 2010--MEMS Optical and JENOPTIK Polymer Systems have merged with JENOPTIK Optical Systems effective Jan. 4, 2010.

JANUARY 12, 2010--Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses machine vision and image processing.