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Computer Vision PLC Integration with Roboflow

3 Aug 2026 • 14 min read

Computer Vision PLC Integration: Turn Detections into Machine Actions

Computer vision PLC integration turns detections into real machine actions. Learn how cameras, RF-DETR, Roboflow Workflows, edge inference, and protocols such as OPC UA, Modbus TCP, and EtherNet/IP connect vision systems to PLCs for reject, stop, alert, and quality-control tasks.

Shop Floor Data Collection

29 Jul 2026 • 23 min read

Shop Floor Data Collection: How to Automate It with Computer Vision

Shop floor data is usually typed into forms after the fact. Cameras already see every unit, defect, and stoppage. Learn how to turn those observations into timestamped production events with RF-DETR, Roboflow Workflows, and Vision Events, including a working cycle-time example.

Advanced Techniques for Optimizing AI Inference Costs

20 Jul 2026 • 13 min read

Advanced Techniques for Optimizing AI Inference Costs

In this guide, you will learn about advanced techniques that can help reduce AI inference costs across the complete computer vision pipeline.

Cosmetic Defect Detection with Roboflow Vision AI

17 Jul 2026 • 11 min read

Cosmetic Defect Detection with Computer Vision

Learn how computer vision can automate cosmetic defect inspection by detecting paint scratches and identifying the affected car part. This guide shows how to train an RF-DETR model in Roboflow, build a part-level inspection Workflow, and return visual results and repair-ready outputs for QA review.

Best Computer Vision Models in 2026 on Roboflow Vision Ai

15 Jul 2026 • 21 min read

Best Computer Vision Models in 2026: A Task-by-Task Guide

Explore the best computer vision models in 2026 for object detection, segmentation, classification, keypoints, OCR, vision-language tasks, depth estimation, and tracking. Compare leading models, benchmarks, licensing, deployment options, and when to fine-tune on custom data using Roboflow tools.

learn what computer vision is with roboflow vision ai

15 Jul 2026 • 15 min read

What Is Computer Vision? An Overview of Vision AI in 2026

Computer vision gives machines the ability to understand images and video, make decisions, and act in the physical world. Learn how vision AI works, its core tasks and models, where it runs, and how to build applications for manufacturing, logistics, retail, and more.

automate surface defects detection with computer vision

13 Jul 2026 • 13 min read

Automate Surface Defects Detection with Vision AI

Learn how computer vision can detect surface defects. This guide explains common use cases and shows how to build a Roboflow surface inspection workflow that detects defects, visualizes results, and supports quality decisions.

Automate Product Recognition with Roboflow Visual AI

10 Jul 2026 • 16 min read

Product Recognition AI

Product Recognition AI helps businesses identify, count, and verify products from images or video. This blog explains key use cases and shows how to build a Roboflow Product-to-Bill Verification System that detects products, reads receipts, and checks billing accuracy.

Best Open-Source Computer Vision Models

9 Jul 2026 • 13 min read

Top 10 Open-Source Computer Vision Models in 2026

Explore the top 10 open-source computer vision models in 2026 and learn how to use them in the Roboflow.

Artificial Intelligence: How AI Works

2 Jul 2026 • 19 min read

Artificial Intelligence: How AI Works

Explore what artificial intelligence is, its history, and what are the main branches. Also learn how modern AI works and how can you build an AI application.

Fastest Object Detection Models

1 Jul 2026 • 12 min read

Fastest Object Detection Models in 2026

Compare the fastest object detection models. Learn how to test models in Roboflow Workflows and use local Inference profiling to choose the best model for your data.

What Is A Two-Stage Detector on Roboflow Vision AI

1 Jul 2026 • 11 min read

What Is A Two-Stage Detector?

Learn what a two-stage detector is, how it works, and how it compares with one-stage models like YOLO. This guide explains the architecture, common examples such as Faster R-CNN and Mask R-CNN, and shows how to train Faster R-CNN using a Roboflow dataset in Colab.

how to train YOLO models on Roboflow Vision AI

23 Jun 2026 • 16 min read

YOLO Training Guide: How to Train a YOLO Model

In this guide you will learn how to train a YOLO model with Roboflow using a labeled dataset, pretrained checkpoints, hosted GPUs, and well managed infrastructure, and as well as how to use the YOLO CLI.

YOLO vs. VLMs: When to Use Each

5 Jun 2026 • 12 min read

YOLO vs. VLMs: When to Use Each

YOLO and VLMs are not competing technologies. YOLO is good for speed, edge deployment, and fixed-class precision. VLMs good on reasoning, flexibility, and open-vocabulary tasks. Learn which one fits your use case and how to use it in Roboflow Workflows.

YOLO for Anomaly Detection with Roboflow

1 Jun 2026 • 10 min read

YOLO for Anomaly Detection

Learn how to build a YOLO based supervised anomaly detection system with Roboflow. This tutorial shows how to collect normal and defective alloy wheel images, label defects with bounding boxes, train a YOLO11 model, and deploy it to detect scratches, and paint damage.

YOLO Knnowledge Distillation with Roboflow

28 May 2026 • 14 min read

YOLO Distillation

Learn how to use large VLMs or foundation models to label images, review annotations in Roboflow, and train a smaller YOLO model. This tutorial covers YOLO distillation with Autodistill and Roboflow Workflows.

YOLO Re-ID in Roboflow

26 May 2026 • 8 min read

YOLO Re-ID

Object detection with YOLO can find objects in each video frame quickly. But detection alone does not remember anything. Re-ID and object tracking solve this. Learn how they work and how to build a tracking pipeline in Roboflow Workflows without writing custom code.

How to Transition from Ultralytics HUB to Ultralytics Platform or Roboflow

26 May 2026 • 15 min read

How to Transition from Ultralytics HUB to Ultralytics Platform: Ultralytics Dataset Export

Ultralytics HUB is shutting down, and this guide shows how to migrate datasets and trained YOLO models to Roboflow or Ultralytics Platform. Learn how to export HUB assets, convert datasets, upload annotations and weights, retrain models, build Workflows, and deploy to edge or offline environments.

Gemini Computer Vision

26 May 2026 • 15 min read

Gemini Computer Vision

Google's Gemini models bring computer vision capabilities and enables understanding images and video without fine-tuning. In this guide you will learn how to use latest Gemini models in Roboflow Playground and Workflows for computer vision tasks.

OpenAI Computer Vision

26 May 2026 • 19 min read

OpenAI Computer Vision

OpenAI models can classify images, extract text, detect objects, and answer visual questions without any training data. This guide covers the latest OpenAI models with vision capabilities, how to test them in Roboflow Playground, and how to build vision pipelines using Roboflow.

Computer Vision MCP

18 May 2026 • 11 min read

Computer Vision MCP: How to use Roboflow MCP

Learn how to use the Roboflow MCP server with Claude Code to build a bird species monitoring app, from uploading images and and generating dataset version to training an RF-DETR model and deploying a Workflow, all from your terminal.

Download Pretrained YOLO Weights

18 May 2026 • 8 min read

Download Pretrained YOLO Weights

Pretrained YOLO weights give your model a head start by initializing from COCO, a benchmark dataset of 80 real-world object categories. This guide covers what pretrained weights are, how Roboflow uses them for custom training, and how to get started.

YOLO Platform Autotrain with Roboflow

14 May 2026 • 11 min read

YOLO Platform Autotrain

Learn how to auto-train YOLO models in Roboflow: upload images, use AI-assisted labeling, generate dataset versions, train YOLO26, YOLO11, or RF-DETR, deploy your model, and improve performance over time with active learning and Neural Architecture Search.

automating food prep, PPE, plating, and delivery with Roboflow vision AI

12 May 2026 • 27 min read

Automate Food Service with AI

Two tutorials for automating food quality with computer vision: end-line plating QA with Gemini 3, and a packaging line monitor with RF-DETR and ByteTrack.

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