Roboflow is building the visual cortex for artificial intelligence.
Every day, millions of developers around the globe and over half of the Fortune 100 use Roboflow to count cells to accelerate cancer research, improve construction site safety, digitize floor plans, preserve coral reef populations, guide drone flight, and much more. Roboflow has been cited in over 13,000 research papers.
Today we're announcing Roboflow Labs, our new applied research division dedicated to advancing the frontier of real world capabilities and helping teach models to see, reason, and act in three dimensions and across industries.
Roboflow Labs has three technical directives:
We publish research and train our own open models intended to be deployed at the edge in real world environments. We released RF-DETR under Apache 2.0, which achieved state-of-the-art for realtime object detection, segmentation, and pose estimation.
We work with frontier labs to evaluate and distribute their models via Roboflow and to create training data and environments across modalities and domains we have strong opinions about - vision, robotics, coding, media, enterprise, and more. We advance the model capabilities that drive the most value back to our customers.
We partner with enterprises to design evals & benchmarks like RF100-VL where we see models still failing at real world commercial use cases. Roboflow Playground, our home of public vision benchmarks, has allowed our community to score models head-to-head on difficult tasks in detection, OCR, visual reasoning, and more.
Roboflow Labs is powered by millions of developers and domain experts who have annotated billions of images and videos on our platform to deploy hundreds of thousands of models in the real world.
Roboflow is on a mission to make the world programmable and our core business is exploding with real staying power as AI traverses the physical economy. We are supported by great enterprise partners like NVIDIA, Rivian, and Standard Bots and backed by top investors including Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Jeff Dean, Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, and more.
We’re a team of former founders, scientists, and zero-to-one operators and are hiring across research, engineering, operations, and growth in downtown San Francisco.
Get in touch: labs@roboflow.com
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[Jake Seaton](https://blog.roboflow.com/author/jake/). (Sep 30, 2026).
Introducing Roboflow Labs: Advancing the Frontier of Real World Capabilities. Roboflow Blog: https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-labs-launch/