Roboflow launches Roboflow Labs, an on-board vision laboratory for robots and industry

The computer vision platform aims to help models see, reason and act in three dimensions by publishing research, open-source models and testbeds.

Roboflow announced on September 30 the creation of Roboflow Labs, a research structure dedicated to the capabilities of models in the physical world: perceiving, reasoning and acting in three dimensions, with a focus on edge vision, robotics and code.

Three areas of work

The laboratory will publish work and train models designed to run on embedded hardware, in the tradition of RF-DETR, its real-time detector licensed under Apache 2.0 license, which also covers segmentation and exposure estimation. It will also evaluate and distribute state-of-the-art laboratory models, and build test benches such as RF100-VL or Roboflow Playground with companies, focused on detection, OCR and visual reasoning.

The San Francisco-based company, backed by GV, Craft Ventures and Y Combinator, claims millions of developers, more than half of the Fortune 100 among its customers and citations in more than 13,000 research papers.