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46 SMT007 MAGAZINE I MAY 2025 e optical head has five customized cam- eras, designed and patented by Delvitech. ey are very fast in acquisition and very precise in resolution. e information is acquired so quickly that we typically man- age 15 gigabytes of data in 0.2 seconds. is speed allows us to acquire information from our neural networks that is then used to man- age what we see. It classifies and detects an error in about 0.3 seconds. So, in roughly 0.5 seconds, we manage all this information. e big advantage of this machine is that we are working on neural networks; we are not limited to one specific data set. So, the terms SPI and AOI are de facto for us in terms of concepts, but they don't really exist for us. We have a machine capable of analyzing every- thing—paste, components, solder joints, plas- tic parts, or a specific adhesive or metallic fea- tures. We can analyze whatever we want to analyze. When my marketing guys named the Horus machine as an SPI, I told them it was "old" terminology. Our machine is not lim- ited; it is capable of inspecting everything. Again, this is the big advantage of the Horus system over other machines. In essence, with that kind of power, you're not limited to this market. Theoretically, you can be in any market that requires inspection. Correct. We are pushing our technology plat- form into the SMT market within electronics manufacturing. But as you will see in the near future, we will also be in microelectronics. Because we are talking about a technology platform that is totally AI-native, down the road we will be able to enter totally different market segments that also require mechani- cal inspection. It may be food inspec- tion, pharma inspection, and so on. What is the advantage of having five cameras? e advantage is that you can acquire information from the top, but also from many other angles. We use a different type of projector, an optic head, with custom tele-lenses that are capable of giving very precise information. is precise acquisition shows the component through all the different angles, allowing the artifi- cial intelligence soware to under- stand and classify an error just as the human eye sees without doing a par- ticular reconstruction. Roberto, you were an early developer and adopter of AI, particularly full neural networks. What got you on this track? I founded Delvitech in 2018 and pro- posed two things to our investors. I told them that we could go to market with a standard system with no AI, or