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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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Medical Device Assembly Verification
Build a Roboflow Workflow that checks medical device images against a component list with Google Gemini.
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How to Add an LLM to a Vision Pipeline (And When to Avoid It)
Discover when to add an LLM to your computer vision pipeline. Learn how to combine object detection and visual reasoning in Roboflow Workflows.
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OCR Lot Code and Expiry Date Verification for Medical Packaging
Train a Roboflow localization model, isolate printed label fields, and verify batch numbers and expiry dates with Google Gemini.
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Launch: Use YOLO26 Semantic Segmentation with Roboflow
We are excited to announce support for YOLO26 semantic segmentation in Roboflow.
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Automate Medical Device Packaging Inspection and UDI Label Verification
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to inspect medical device packaging, verify UDI labels, and identify packaging issues.
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Claude Fable 5 for Vision: Evaluation and Benchmarks
Claude Fable 5 is a strong reasoning model for visual understand but not a state-of-the-art vision model.
• 12 min read
Give My Agent Eyes
Combine RF-DETR and LMMs to build an AI pipeline that perceives, reasons, and acts.
• 5 min read
What Goes in a Vision AI Solution Catalog
Scale your enterprise computer vision with a Standard Solution Catalog. Learn the six artifacts needed to move from isolated pilots to global deployments.
• 4 min read
What Is YOLO27?
YOLO27 brings 3D perception to YOLO with YOLO-Depth and YOLO-StereoDepth.
• 7 min read
Turn Vision AI Detections Into Alerts: PLC, MES, Slack
Learn how to detect defects with Roboflow and trigger real-time downstream alerts in manufacturing facilities.
• 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.
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How to Build a Vision AI Center of Excellence
Build a vision AI Center of Excellence in three steps: define a North Star metric, pilot your easiest use case, codify the first catalog entry.
• 13 min read
How to Train a YOLOv11 Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset
Learn how to train a YOLOv11 object detection model with a custom dataset.
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Who Runs a Vision AI Program: The Builder, Scaler, Operator Model
A vision AI team needs three roles: Builder, Scaler, and Operator. Here is what each one owns and how to staff them as your program scales.
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Why Top-Down Vision AI Rollouts Fail: The Push Trap vs. the Pull Model
Top-down vision AI rollouts stall because plants reject what they didn't specify. Here's why the Push Trap fails and how the Pull Model scales.
• 14 min read
Building a Real-Time Snack Detection Web App
Learn how to build a real-time computer vision web app. Combine Roboflow object detection, MediaPipe, and Flask to build a custom snack-tracking app.
• 6 min read
The Computer Vision Manufacturing Integration Stack
Connect computer vision to your manufacturing stack: edge inference plus PLC, SCADA, MES, and ERP integration over EtherNet/IP, MQTT, and OPC UA.
• 4 min read
Cosmos 3: Evaluation for Vision Use Cases
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 offers zero-shot performance on fixed-camera footage across airports, warehouses, and production lines.
• 3 min read
Improving Cancer Research with Computer Vision
Researcher Mateo Sokac trained an object detection model in Roboflow to count neutrophils in dry microscopy, hitting 0.70 mAP with image tiling and augmentation.
• 7 min read
What Is OPC UA? How Factories Connect Vision AI to PLCs
OPC UA (IEC 62541) explained: what it is, how it compares to MQTT and Modbus, and how it connects Vision AI inspection results to PLCs and MES.
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Is Your Vision AI Program in Pilot Purgatory? A 10-Question Diagnostic
Stuck running vision AI pilots that never scale? Answer these 10 yes/no questions to score whether your program is in pilot purgatory or on the curve.
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