The winners of the inspect award 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 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



The winners in the AUTOMATION & CONTROL category



The winners in the ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE category



The winners in the SME category



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