The winners of the inspect award 2025

10.06.2025 - This time, with two additional categories, “SMEs” and “Artificial Intelligence,” the selection was even larger than usual. But now they have been chosen: the machine vision products of the year 2025.

The winners of the inspect award 2025 have been chosen. (Image: Wiley)

The readers of inspect – WORLD OF VISION selected three winners in each category. We would like to congratulate all the winners.

Special thanks go to the jury, which selected 40 nominees for the four categories from the numerous entries. The jury for the inspect award 2025 included: Paul-Gerald Dittrich, Project Manager at Spectronet; Dr. Ronald Müller, Founder and Managing Director of Vision Markets; Anne Wendel, Machine Vision Expert at VDMA; Thomas Lübkemeier, Managing Director of EMVA, and Prof. Dr. Michael Heizmann, Professor of Mechatronic Measurement Systems at the Institute for Industrial Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

The winners in the VISION category

1st Place: To date, there are hardly any ready-to-use solutions for very high data rates that do not require frame grabbers. Baumer closes this gap with GigE Vision 3.0 via RDMA. (Image: Baumer)
2nd Place: The Eros camera series combines compactness with 10GigE performance and power consumption that even beats many 5GigE cameras. (Image: Emergent)
3rd Place: Edmund Optics' HP+ and HPi+ fixed focal length lenses, available with focal lengths of 16, 25, and 35 mm, are compact, lightweight, and high-resolution. (Image: Edmund Optics)

The winners in the AUTOMATION & CONTROL category

1st Place: The DSX2000 is a fully motorized digital microscope for fast, accurate imaging and measurements. It combines imaging, analysis, and reporting in one system for QC and research laboratories. (Image: Evident)
2nd Place: With the Opto NCDT 5500, Micro-Epsilon presents a new generation of laser distance sensors that are versatile and powerful. (Image: Micro-Epsilon)
3rd Place: With the WLI unit and a wide range of interference optics developed and manufactured in-house, Mitutoyo enables the reliable and robust industrial use of a high-precision sensor. (Image: Mitutoyo)

The winners in the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE category

1st Place: The NS42 from Zebra is a powerful smart camera optimized for AI-based image processing applications. (Image: Zebra)
2nd Place: VG-Trainer is a solution from Hexagon for AI-based segmentation of CT data. (Image: Hexagon)
3rd Place: The Eurotech Reliacor series, equipped with Nvidia Jetson Orin and Arm Cortex CPU, is a solution for AI-supported optical inspections. (Image: Inonet)

The winners in the SME category

1st Place: Ueye Live is a new camera product line that offers features from the consumer and surveillance sectors for industrial process monitoring. (Image: IDS)
2nd Place: The Ipulse controllers from Icore enable rapid switching between lighting scenarios thanks to precise current pulses of less than 1 μs and currents of up to 200 A. (Image: Rauscher)
3rd Place: The MX2457 from the XIX-XL series is a camera with detachable sensor head technology that delivers high performance in a small space. (Image: Ximea)