

                                  EXHIBIT 23.1

                       Consent of Independent Accountants


We  hereby  consent  to  the   incorporation  by  reference  in  the  Prospectus
constituting part of this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated
January 23, 1998, except as to the subsequent warrant  expirations  described in
Note 10,  which is as of  March  10,  1998,  appearing  on page F-2 of  Advanced
Machine  Vision  Corporation's  Annual  Report on Form  10-K for the year  ended
December 31, 1997.




/s/ Price Waterhouse LLP
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PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP

Portland, Oregon
May 26, 1998

