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Injection Molding Defect Detection for Medical Components
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to detect defects on molded components and generate automated inspection observations.
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Outsourced Data Labeling in Roboflow
Roboflow offers outsourced labeling via approved partners. Receive the custom annotations you need to train high-quality models.
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How to Fine-Tune RF-DETR Keypoints on Custom Data
A step-by-step guide to fine-tuning RF-DETR Keypoint on a custom basketball court dataset, from COCO pretrained inference to training, evaluation, and broadcast-video inference.
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How to Detect Metal Defects with Computer Vision
Learn how to detect metal defects using computer vision.
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR): How It Works
hat optical character recognition is, how OCR works in 5 steps, Tesseract vs EasyOCR vs PaddleOCR vs VLMs, and how to build an OCR pipeline in Roboflow.
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The Vision AI Maturity Model: A Framework for Taking Pilots to Production Scale
Discover a five-level model showing how vision AI evolves from isolated pilots into a reusable system across sites.
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Steel Strip Defect Inspection
Train an RF-DETR model on steel strip defects and build a Workflow that sorts every inspection into pass, review, or fail.
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Roboflow and Standard Bots Bring Custom Visual Intelligence to Every Robot
Roboflow and Standard Bots are announcing a partnership to enable robots to see, understand, and act with visual intelligence.
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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.
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Synthetic Image Generation in Roboflow Workflows with Stability AI
In this guide, learn how to use Roboflow to generate synthetic data with DALL-E and GPT-4 Vision for use in training vision models.
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Launch: RF-DETR Keypoint in Roboflow
RF-DETR Keypoint beats YOLO26-pose on accuracy and speed, learns keypoint uncertainty, and is Apache 2.0. Label, train, and deploy in Roboflow.
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Planogram Compliance Detection with Roboflow
Use Roboflow Workflows to automatically detect empty shelf zones and flag brand mixing violations using object detection and visual reasoning.
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Building an AI-Powered Robotic Welding Defect Detection System
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to identify welding defects and generate automated quality inspection reports.
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Workflow Caching in Self-Hosted Roboflow Inference
Learn how self-hosted inference caching works in Roboflow Workflows and how to force a deployment refresh.
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Off-the-Shelf vs. Custom Models for Industrial Computer Vision
SUMMARY
Use off-the-shelf models for rapid prototyping or when your task relies on detecting common, everyday objects that pre-trained models already recognize. However, to achieve the reliability required for specialized industrial production, you must deploy a custom, fine-tuned model trained specifically on your own domain'
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What Is an eQMS in Manufacturing?
Discover what an eQMS is and how integrating computer vision automates manufacturing quality control, from real-time defect detection to CAPA tracking.
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Real-Time Keypoint Detection with RF-DETR
Discover RF-DETR Keypoint, a real-time, end-to-end detection model. Outperforming YOLO26-pose, it offers self-calibrating loss & Apache 2.0 license.
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Surface Defect Detection on Machined Metal Medical Parts
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to detect surface defects on machined medical components and generate automated inspection observations.
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Physical AI: How AI Systems Interact with the Physical World
Physical AI perceives, reasons, and acts across robots, vehicles, and factories. See why perception, not reasoning, decides what ships.
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IV Bag Fill-Level and Leak Detection
Build an automated IV bag fill-level and leak detection system using RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
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Reduce Class Flickering: Introducing Track Class Lock
SUMMARY
Track Class Lock is a new Roboflow Workflow block that stops object detection labels from flickering on video (the bottle that reads "remote" for a frame, then "bottle" again) by watching each tracked object and freezing its class once the detector has voted for it
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Automated Tire Sidewall OCR
Automate tire sidewall OCR to extract DOT codes, sizes, and brands. Learn to combine RF-DETR and multimodal LLMs into a Roboflow Vision Agent.
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Contact Lens Defect Inspection
Train a Roboflow object detection model, detect defects on each contact lens, and sort results into pass, review, and fail with a Custom Python Block.
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REST APIs in Manufacturing
Learn how REST APIs connect vision AI, MES, and quality systems on the plant floor. Understand when to use REST versus MQTT and OPC UA for industrial data.
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