Computer Vision News Coverage of computer vision in robotics and AI, including object detection, 3D perception, SLAM, depth sensing, and vision-language models. The Robotics Media reports on new research, product launches, funding rounds, and deployments of vision systems in autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, drones, and warehouse robotics. Readers find news on sensors, cameras, edge AI hardware, and the software frameworks powering machine perception.
xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Region Editing — Aug 16, 2026 — xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and Grok apps, adding region-level editing, up to fiv...Vaidio 10.0 Brings Vision-Language Verification to Enterprise Camera Fleets — Jul 10, 2026 — Vaidio's version 10 platform adds VLM-powered verification via NVIDIA Cosmos, triples per-GPU throughput, and moves to a modular multi-container archi...MIT's Gleanmer Chip Gives Tiny Robots 3D Mapping on 6 Milliwatts — Jul 3, 2026 — MIT researchers have unveiled Gleanmer, a chip that lets miniature robots and battery-constrained devices build real-time 3D maps of their surrounding...TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Scale Video AI — Jul 2, 2026 — Video understanding startup TwelveLabs raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, bringing total funding to $207 million.Orbbec Brings AI-Powered 3D Vision to Automate 2026 — Jun 27, 2026 — Orbbec showcased industrial-grade 3D cameras and edge-AI depth perception at Automate 2026, partnering with Ant Group's Robbyant to sharpen robot mani...RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots — Jun 22, 2026 — The Intel spinout's new D585 Pro packs a Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than twice the depth quality of the previous RealSense generation for...SOCOM Hunts For Self-Service Synthetic Data Platform To Train Drone Computer Vision — Jun 14, 2026 — U.S. Special Operations Command is opening its UxSAI synthetic data modeler assessment for industry, hunting a self-service platform that can spin up...Google DeepMind, Oxford and UCL Win CVPR 2026 Best Paper With D4RT 4D Model — Jun 11, 2026 — D4RT, a unified 4D scene-reconstruction model from Google DeepMind, Oxford and UCL, has won the CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award, signalling computer vision...Visionary.ai Wins Edge AI Product Of The Year, Runs Live On Snapdragon Gen 4 — Jun 4, 2026 — Israeli edge-AI specialist Visionary.ai has been named the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year in cameras and sensors, while its neural image...EPFL Teaches Vision Prosthetics To See Objects, Not Just Spots of Light — Jun 3, 2026 — EPFL's NeuroAI Lab has built AI models that predict the brain stimulation patterns needed to evoke specific objects — a step toward useful sight for b...CVPR 2026 Opens in Denver With 4,089 Accepted Papers and Record AI Submissions — Jun 3, 2026 — The flagship computer-vision conference runs June 3-7 in Denver after a record 16,092 paper submissions, with vision-language and embodied AI dominati...Genesis AI Unveils GENE-26.5 Foundation Model With Custom Robotic Hands — May 31, 2026 — Khosla-backed Genesis AI on May 6, 2026 unveiled GENE-26.5, its first robotics foundation model, paired with custom anthropomorphic robotic hands buil...Cognex Launches In-Sight 3900, Its Fastest Edge AI Vision System Yet — May 31, 2026 — Cognex unveiled the In-Sight 3900 vision system, claiming 4x faster inspections at the edge via Qualcomm Dragonwing silicon and built-in AI tooling.Niantic Spatial, Spexi Team to Turn Drone Imagery Into City-Scale 3D for Physical AI — May 31, 2026 — Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial have struck a partnership pairing Spexi's 10,000-pilot drone network with Niantic's Reconstruction API to deliver...Apple to Present 14 Computer Vision Papers at CVPR 2026 in Denver — May 29, 2026 — Apple will present 14 research papers, a keynote, and several invited talks at CVPR 2026 in Denver, with work spanning image generation, video modelin...Slamcore Raises $14M From Rockwell to Scale Visual AI in Warehouses — May 28, 2026 — Slamcore raised $14M led by Rockwell Automation's ROKStar Ventures to scale its stereo-camera visual AI for tracking forklifts and industrial vehicles...CVPR 2026 Draws Record 16,092 AI Paper Submissions — May 27, 2026 — CVPR 2026 received a record 16,092 paper submissions, up 24 percent over 2025, with 4,089 papers accepted across computer vision, multimodal AI and em...Gecko Robotics Taps Ouster Rev8 Color Lidar for AI Inspections — May 23, 2026 — Gecko Robotics is testing Ouster's new Rev8 color lidar to enrich its Cantilever platform, giving AI inspection software colorized 3D data to better d...