Inadvertently, computer vision and machine vision are often used interchangeably; when in fact, they are two different albeit related concepts.

Computer vision is an algorithm that processes and interprets an image before issuing instructions for other components to act on it, while machine vision is an engineering based system, which uses a camera to see an image. Machine vision has been around for sometime but computer vision has modernized it, analogous to how some may say that, AI has modernized RPA.