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Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026Published at 6:59 AM EDT · New York
OctoSense Releases an Open Multi-Sensor Platform for Open-World Perception
Stereo RGB, event cameras, lidar, thermal, inertial and RTK satellite positioning in one open-source rig built for promptable, open-vocabulary perception.
Researchers released OctoSense, an open-source sensing platform that combines stereo RGB and event cameras, lidar, a thermal camera, an inertial measurement unit, RTK-corrected satellite positioning and proprioception in a single rig. The a…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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