Sainte Foy, Quebec, Canada — Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) announced July 24 that it has acquired HexaVision Technologies, a Quebec-based machine vision R&D company. HexaVision develops high-performance vision software for machine and robot guidance in the photonics, telecommunications, semiconductor and automotive industries. "HexaVision's core technology—with techniques that achieve accuracy up to 1/40th of a pixel—brings us new guidance vision algorithms and increases our performance in critical and demanding applications, such as vision servos for fiber optic assembly," says Brian Carlisle, Adept's chairman and ceo.