Building a Physical AI that Plays Connect 4
Roboflow published a tutorial by Aarnav Shah detailing a DIY Connect 4 robot that uses a HiWonder MaxArm, RF-DETR object detection, a negamax engine, and Gemini 3.6 Flash with ElevenLabs to play and t…
Roboflow published a tutorial by Aarnav Shah detailing a DIY Connect 4 robot that uses a HiWonder MaxArm, RF-DETR object detection, a negamax engine, and Gemini 3.6 Flash with ElevenLabs to play and t…
Roboflow Inc. explains that on-premise computer vision keeps inference local, with production images processed on hardware inside the facility, which can keep sensitive data local, remove network roun…
Roboflow, a computer vision development platform, released a guide advocating for self-hosted computer vision using its Roboflow Inference serving layer, citing benefits such as data privacy, offline …
Roboflow published a tutorial for building a local AI basketball shot evaluator that logs makes, misses, release velocity, shot arc, and form using an RF-DETR object detection model and an RF-DETR key…
Roboflow published a tutorial for building an AI video car damage inspector that uses an RF-DETR model, ByteTrack tracking, and Gemini to generate digitally signed PDF reports. The system timestamps v…
Roboflow published a tutorial on detecting small objects in drone imagery, training RF-DETR on roughly 7,000 aerial images with over 120,000 person annotations to identify nine classes of people and v…
Roboflow published a tutorial on building dwell time and zone analytics with vision AI, using RF-DETR for person detection, ByteTrack for persistent tracking, and a zone timer to measure per-person dw…
Roboflow published a tutorial demonstrating human-object interaction (HOI) detection without training an interaction model, using RF-DETR to detect workers, forklifts, pallets, and carts (77.5% mAP@50…
Roboflow published a tutorial on automating powder-coat defect detection using its RF-DETR vision model, which achieved 74.0% mAP@50 on a dataset of 2,775 images, and Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate inspec…
Roboflow has published a guide for building a machine-vision workflow that uses a custom-trained RF-DETR model to assess surface defect severity on leather, automatically classifying each detection as…
Roboflow's AI1 Camera turns production line cameras into real-time inspection systems by combining an RF-DETR detection model, Roboflow Workflows, and edge inference. A bottle inspection pipeline buil…
Roboflow published a guide showing how to run RF-DETR inside NVIDIA DeepStream on a Jetson Orin NX, using JetPack 6.2, DeepStream 7.1, and TensorRT 10.3. The post details exporting RF-DETR Nano to ONN…
Roboflow released a computer vision workflow that automates hog ring inspection in automotive seat assembly, using RF-DETR to detect and count rings, a custom Python block to compare counts, and Gemin…
Roboflow released a tutorial on automating flange quality inspection using computer vision, training an RF-DETR model on a labeled flange defect dataset to detect cracks, scratches, dents, and pinhole…
D-FINE-seg, a framework for real-time object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation, achieves higher F1 scores than YOLO26 and RF-DETR on Cityscapes detection and instance segment…
RoboFlow recommends profiling the full AI inference pipeline before optimizing, as the biggest savings in video applications often come from lowering frame rates with tracking, routing uncertain cases…
Roboflow released a guide for building an automated beverage shelf-monitoring system using RF-DETR object detection and Gemini 2.5 Pro, which detects and counts Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite bottles, c…
RF-DETR is the strongest starting point for most computer vision projects in 2026, topping both COCO and the real-world RF100-VL benchmark for object detection and segmentation, with SAM 3, DINOv3, GL…
Roboflow released a tutorial demonstrating how to build a real-time process monitoring pipeline using RF-DETR for object detection, ByteTrack for tracking, and custom counting logic within Roboflow Wo…
Roboflow published a tutorial on automating surface defect detection using a custom RF-DETR object detection model and Roboflow Workflows, enabling quality teams to instantly classify product health a…