From July 8 to 10, the 2024 China Shanghai Machine Vision Expo and Machine Vision Technology and Industrial Application Conference was held as scheduled at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. Spanning over 30,000 square meters, the expo gathered more than 300 domestic and international AI enterprises and attracted over 95,000 professional visitors.
As a comprehensive platform for machine vision technologies at home and abroad, this expo presented cutting-edge technologies and innovations in machine vision systems and core components. It also served as a top-tier platform for communication and collaboration, helping enterprises enhance their market competitiveness and discover innovative solutions. Vizum was honored to join experts, scholars, and technical professionals from across the industrial application field to explore new trends, technologies, and applications in the industry.
Vizum Gains Widespread Attention
As a key exhibitor at the expo, Vizum showcased its flagship technologies in intelligent vision — the “ViEye(Welding)” and “ViEye(Grasping)” 3D cameras.
ViEye, also known as the intelligent 3D welding camera, serves as the visual input for welding systems. With powerful features, it is widely applicable across the smart welding sector. It supports full-process operations such as workpiece scanning, weld seam extraction, and path planning before welding; weld tracking during welding; and flatness and dimensional deviation detection after welding — truly enabling a full-process, intelligent, efficient, and high-precision welding workflow. Unlike conventional 3D cameras on the market, ViEye is compact, lightweight, and integrates both static and dynamic imaging. It is also highly adaptable to harsh environments, offering resistance to strong light and reflections, significantly enhancing accuracy in diverse welding scenarios.
In addition to ViEye for welding applications, Vizum also displayed it for the grasping domain. ViEye supports object scanning, localization, size detection, and pose recognition. To cater to diverse applications, it comes in multiple sizes and baseline configurations. When integrated with robotic arms, ViEye enables easy path planning, object gripping, and item sorting. Its high-resolution imaging chip boosts positioning accuracy, and its anti-glare, anti-reflection, and anti-absorption capabilities make it suitable for challenging industrial environments.
Vizum not only provides products but also complete intelligent solutions — the “Tiger” series platforms: “MH Platform” for welding and “FH Platform” for grasping. These platforms bridge the low-level vision systems with high-level robotic applications, creating a seamless, end-to-end development process for efficient and convenient machine vision–based automation.
At the event, Vizum’s engineers demonstrated how ViEye cameras integrate with robotic arms and the platforms, showcasing streamlined workflows and highlighting the broad application prospects of intelligent 3D industrial vision in industrial automation. These products not only lead the industry in technology but also perform reliably in practice. Moreover, ViEye cameras strike an ideal balance between cost and performance, offering customers high-quality solutions at an affordable price. The booth drew widespread interest and acclaim from industrial enterprises and professional visitors alike — a strong testament to Vizum’s technological leadership and market influence in the machine vision space.
In the Era of Robotics: “Vizum Leads the Way”
Beyond machine vision products, the undeniable star of Vizum’s booth was the humanoid robot Xiaowei Gen-2 — dubbed the “pride of Vizum.” This intelligent humanoid harvesting robot, applicable in agricultural settings, supports autonomous walking, self-learning, and cognitive capabilities. Each joint is powered by a servo motor drive system developed in-house by Vizum, enabling seamless integration of motion control and visual perception.
On the vision side, Vizum’s proprietary dual-camera + line laser stereo vision technology meets the core requirements of “human-like” eyes: large depth of field, wide field of view, and high precision. Its agile robotic hand features pressure feedback, allowing gentle fruit harvesting without damage, continuous operation, and millisecond-level cycle times — perfectly suited for 24/7 automated harvesting. Xiaowei’s impressive debut showcased Vizum’s innovative and technical strength while delivering an unforgettable interactive experience for the audience.
At the venue, visitors witnessed firsthand Xiaowei’s fast and accurate fruit-picking performance in a simulated harvesting environment. Its efficiency amazed the crowd and vividly demonstrated Vizum’s achievements in AI and robotics, while offering a glimpse into the future of intelligent automation.
Affordable Yet Powerful
This expo marked the first time Vizum publicly revealed pricing for its welding and grasping cameras, as well as its portable 3D smart devices. With competitive pricing and solid technical capabilities, Vizum attracted numerous clients and successfully secured multiple procurement agreements on-site. Vizum also welcomed attendees to stay tuned for updates on new products, with volume-based discounts available.
Shaping the Future Today
The 2024 Shanghai Machine Vision Expo has undoubtedly become a vital barometer for the industry. It allowed exhibitors and attendees from around the world to explore the latest applications and technologies in the field, providing invaluable insights into emerging trends in smart vision.
For Vizum, this event served as an excellent platform to showcase its strengths. Through the expo, Vizum demonstrated its latest R&D achievements, technological innovations, and turnkey solutions. It also created opportunities for peer exchange and learning, enabling Vizum to better understand market needs and shape its future strategies.
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape how we live and work, many once sci-fi scenarios are becoming reality. Vizum recognizes the dual nature of opportunity and challenge in this transformation. With an open mind and a spirit of innovation, the company is committed to seizing the moment, driving continuous technological progress, and delivering next-generation visual intelligence solutions for real-world applications — improving productivity and enhancing quality of life across industries.