Vision 2026 Stuttgart: Come and Find Us at The Engineers Arms

Vision 2026 opens in Stuttgart on 6 October. This year our stand does much more than show cameras on a shelf. We have built it around live, working demonstrations, each one making a point about how we work and what modern machine vision can do. There is 3D dimensioning, 3D for logistics, a line scan print-inspection rig, label verification on real printers and a machine vision darts game you can play. There is also a pub. Here is what you will find and why each piece is on the stand.

High-accuracy 3D: two profilers working as one

Our first 3D demonstration puts two laser triangulation profilers to work side by side, the Zebra AltiZ and the Teledyne Z-Trak. We run them in combination for high-accuracy dimensioning and tolerance checks, both set up in Zebra's Aurora Design Assistant. The interesting part is not only the accuracy. It is that two profilers from two different manufacturers work together cleanly on one system, driven by the same flowchart-based software. That is a quiet demonstration of how far machine vision standards and vendor interoperability have come. A few years ago this was much harder than it should have been.

3D for logistics: three technologies, two totes

The second 3D demonstration is aimed squarely at logistics. We have two filled totes and a single demo that reads them three different ways, with LUCID time-of-flight, Zebra Photoneo structured light and Teledyne stereo vision all on show together. Each is a real answer to 3D picking, and each has its own strengths, weaknesses and price point. Seeing them side by side is the fastest way to understand which one suits a given job. Like the dimensioning demo, all three are set up in Aurora Design Assistant, so we can compare them on the same software.

Between this demo and the last, you can see all four of the main 3D technologies in one visit: laser triangulation, time-of-flight, structured light and stereo. That choice is exactly the conversation we have with customers moving into automated picking and depalletising.

Line scan: a print line you can watch

Line scan is the technology behind high-speed web and print inspection, and it is easiest to understand when you can see it running. We have built a spinning drum to emulate a print inspection line, with two line scan cameras inspecting it: the high-end AxCIS and the cost-effective Tetra. The rig is lit with an Advanced Illumination light and fitted with a Computar lens, because a line scan camera is only as good as the lighting and optics around it. The two cameras show the range, from a premium integrated contact image sensor down to an accessible CMOS camera that drops onto a network.

Kinetic and Clearview Plus: verification on real printers

This part of the stand is less about the camera and more about what we add around it. We have two Zebra ZT printers, each fitted with a Kinetic scanner. One is running 100 percent label verification, checking every label as it prints. The other is running golden template inspection, comparing each label against a known-good master. Both systems are built on the Aurora Imaging Library, the vision software toolkit our engineers develop with.

Together they show our Kinetic range in action. More than that, they show Clearview Plus, the added-value services that turn a box of parts into a working, supported solution. For a lot of customers, that wrap-around is the real reason to work with us.

Computer vision for OEMs, and a game of darts

Supplying components to OEMs is a core part of our business. Our customers build our cameras, lenses, lighting and computers into their own products across very different markets, often for computer vision applications rather than classic factory inspection. This demo shows what that can look like when you combine well-chosen parts with modern software.

Three low-cost Teledyne Dragonfly S cameras with Computar lenses feed a powerful Neousys industrial computer running an open-source YOLOv8 model, which watches the dartboard and counts the score automatically. Off-the-shelf cameras and lenses, an open-source AI model and a capable computer, turned into a working application we built with AI coding tools. It is good fun. It also makes a serious point about how accessible computer vision has become. Throw six darts, and the best score each day wins a trophy.

The Engineers Arms

When you have seen the demos, the bar is where the real conversations happen. The Engineers Arms is a proper British pub in the middle of our stand, serving local Stuttgart beer, non-alcoholic options, soft drinks and coffee. Pull up a stool and talk to our engineers about your application in a relaxed setting. The best stand conversations are rarely about a camera. They are about the problem you are trying to solve, and those are the ones we enjoy most.

Find us at Vision 2026

Vision 2026 runs from 6 to 8 October at Messe Stuttgart. You will find us and The Engineers Arms at Hall 10, stand 10D81. Come and play the darts, watch the demos and talk to us about the job you want to automate. If you would like a meeting in the diary rather than leaving it to chance, get in touch and we will book a slot.

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