Datalogic Invests in Vision-Based Technology

Datalogic has announced the acquisition, through its subsidiary Datalogic Scanning Holdings, of the entire share capital of Evolution Robotics Retail., a company located in California with expertise in visual pattern recognition technology for use currently in retail loss prevention and productivity applications (Evolution Robotics Retail).

The entire management and technical team of Evolution Robotics Retail will remain with the company and continue to drive innovation in the retail sector, while also working with Datalogic to promote its visual pattern recognition technology (ViPR) in other commercial and industrial arenas.

"This acquisition further strengthens our technological leadership with avantgarde technologies which are unique in the field of visual pattern recognition. For example, the company’s applications are capable of automatically identifying items in shopping cart baskets utilizing sophisticated object recognition algorithms. We also believe that visual pattern recognition will be a key technological building block in our industrial focused businesses and we expect to capitalize on this soon.

"More fundamentally, as a company we are looking to further balance our portfolio by investing strongly in solution-based businesses and not just in hardware-based businesses – thereby creating more value for our customers and positioning Datalogic as a more strategic partner,” commented Mauro Sacchetto, Datalogic CEO,