Focus On Vision: From Consumer LiDAR to Defense Applications to Robotics | June 3, 2026
From consumer-grade LiDAR sensors used for industrial machine vision to using machine vision AI for defense and more to the results of a robotics developers survey, Justine Murphy has you covered in this episode of Focus On Vision.
- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have discovered that consumer-grade LiDAR sensors can be used for non-line-of-sight imaging—essentially seeing around corners—using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware.
- Industrial generative AI company Cignal Defense is moving beyond its core work in homeland security and into the broader defense and industrial base manufacturing sector via machine vision AI.
- Developers In a new global survey of 1,000 robotics developers, nearly 90 percent of respondents expect physical AI, robotic systems that interact directly with the real world instead of just digital software, will be crucial for their future work.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:20 Smartphone LiDAR Could Enhance Machine Vision Applications
1:39 Machine Vision AI Finds Use in Defense and Industrial Base Manufacturing
2:38 Global Survey Findings for Robotics Developers
3:50 Outro
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About the Author
Justine Murphy
Justine Murphy is the multimedia director for Endeavor Business Media's Digital Infrastructure Group. She is a multiple award-winning writer and editor with more 20 years of experience in newspaper publishing as well as public relations, marketing, and communications. For nearly 10 years, she has covered all facets of the optics and photonics industry as an editor, writer, web news anchor, and podcast host for an internationally reaching magazine publishing company. Her work has earned accolades from the New England Press Association as well as the SIIA/Jesse H. Neal Awards. She received a B.A. from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.