• 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.
• 6 min read
Turn Predictions Into Better Models and Insights with Vision Events
A vision system is only as useful as the data it produces. Vision Events now captures operator feedback right from the HMI, ships a built-in dashboard for every use case, and answers plain-language questions via the Roboflow MCP Server.
• 3 min read
Roboflow and Standard Bots Partner to 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.
• 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.
• 6 min read
Gemini 3.5 Flash for Vision: Evaluation and Benchmarks
SUMMARY
Gemini 3.5 Flash, released at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, currently tops the Roboflow Vision Evals leaderboard across 67 real vision prompts covering defect detection, document understanding, object counting, and spatial reasoning. It outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on counting and spatial tasks while running roughly
• 5 min read
Integrate Roboflow with OPC UA
SUMMARY
The Roboflow OPC UA Writer Sink block (available on Enterprise plans) lets a Roboflow Workflow push detection results directly to an OPC UA server as live tags, making computer vision outputs visible in SCADA platforms, PLCs, and dashboards alongside other plant sensor data. This guide walks through starting the
• 4 min read
Roboflow MCP: Build Vision Apps with Claude, Codex, and More
The new Roboflow MCP Server connects Claude, Codex, and other AI agents to Roboflow so they can label visual data, train custom models, and build deployable vision pipelines.
• 3 min read
Launch: 300+ OpenRouter models available in Roboflow
SUMMARY
Roboflow's OpenRouter integration adds a single Workflow block that routes to any of 300+ VLMs, including every major commercial model and a broad selection of open-source options, without requiring separate auth, request adapters, or retry logic for each provider. Practical patterns this enables inside Roboflow Workflows
• 5 min read
GPT-5.5: Vision Benchmarks & Use Cases
Explore OpenAI GPT 5.5 vision benchmarks. Learn how its new high-resolution encoder improves document parsing and how to use it in Roboflow Workflows.
• 12 min read
Luxonis OAK-D: Deploy a Custom Object Detection Model with Depth
Train a custom object detection model and deploy it to the Luxonis OAK-D: RF-DETR on the host, depth per detection, and on-device options.
• 3 min read
Vision Events: Turning Images into Insights
Transform raw model predictions into trackable insights. Vision Events provides a secure, searchable record of your model deployments alongside images and custom metadata.
• 5 min read
Serverless GPU Inference Cost Comparison: Roboflow, GCP, AWS, Azure
SUMMARY
Serving a custom RF-DETR XL model on serverless GPU infrastructure produces dramatically different monthly costs depending on the provider and traffic pattern, so this post benchmarks Roboflow Serverless, GCP Cloud Run, AWS SageMaker, and Azure Serverless GPU across three workloads: continuous inference at one request per 10 seconds,
• 18 min read
How to Use Roboflow for Video-Heavy Pipelines
Learn to build high-throughput video pipelines with ByteTrack, Time-in-Zone logic, and Roboflow Workflows for cloud or edge.
• 14 min read
How to Deploy Computer Vision
In this definitive guide, we break down the decisions required to build a production-grade vision system.
• 18 min read
Training a TensorFlow Faster R-CNN Object Detection Model on a Custom Dataset
Train a Faster R-CNN style detector on a custom dataset in your browser: no GPU, no code. Label, train RF-DETR, and deploy from cloud to edge.
• 6 min read
Inference as a Service: How Roboflow Makes Vision AI Production-Ready
This guide explores how to abstract away the complexities of GPU orchestration and hardware allocation. Roboflow offers a production-grade API with built-in active learning, model chaining, and auto-scaling to turn your vision models into real-world solutions.
• 5 min read
Launch: Process data directly from Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, and more
We’ve expanded Batch Processing to support the wider ecosystem of S3-compatible storage. Learn how to run inference on terabytes of data stored in Wasabi, Backblaze, and Cloudflare R2, and more.
• 4 min read
AI for Live Video: Introducing the Serverless Streaming API
SUMMARY
The Roboflow Serverless Video Streaming API lets you run computer vision workflows on live video from webcams, RTSP feeds, or video files by streaming directly to the cloud over WebRTC, with no inference environment to configure or manage. Compute instances are ephemeral and scale automatically, so you pay only
• 4 min read
Introducing Roboflow Rapid: Text prompt to vision model in minutes
SUMMARY
Roboflow Rapid is a prompt-based model creation engine that takes you from a text description and a handful of images or a short video to a deployed custom model without manual labeling. You type a prompt describing what to detect, Rapid automatically finds and annotates matching objects, and
• 5 min read
How to use YOLOE for Zero-Shot Object Detection & Segmentation
SUMMARY
YOLOE extends the YOLO family with zero-shot object detection and instance segmentation, letting you specify target classes at inference time rather than training a dedicated model for each task. This tutorial walks through environment setup on a Colab T4 GPU, pulling YOLOE weights from Hugging Face, running text-
• 9 min read
How to Build an iOS App with Visual AI Capabilities
SUMMARY
This tutorial walks through building an iOS app that detects glasses in real time using a custom RF-DETR Nano model trained in Roboflow and deployed via the roboflow-swift SDK. RF-DETR Nano is chosen specifically for its low latency on live camera streams, making it well suited
• 21 min read
How to Control a PTZ Camera with Computer Vision and Roboflow Workflows
Learn how to control a PTZ camera in a computer vision application.
• 5 min read
How to Use Perception Encoder
Learn how to use and deploy Meta AI's Perception Encoder model with Roboflow Inference.
• 6 min read
How to Deploy RF-DETR to an NVIDIA Jetson
Learn how to deploy RF-DETR to a Roboflow Jetson.
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