Morning Edition · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
OctoSense Releases an Open Multi-Sensor Platform for Promptable Perception Research
An open hardware-and-data stack pairs stereo RGB, event cameras, LiDAR, thermal, and positioning to push perception beyond fixed label sets.
OctoSense, an open-source sensor platform, bundles stereo RGB cameras, event cameras, LiDAR, a thermal camera, an inertial measurement unit, positioning corrected by real-time kinematics, and proprioception, according to the AI with Papers…
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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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