Ex-Meta Scientists Launch Perceptron to Put Visual AI on the Factory Floor

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Perceptron, founded by former Meta scientists, emerged August 26 with a model aimed at industrial settings that it says gives machines both navigation capability and in-depth visual intelligence, targeting manufacturing environments rather than consumer or robotics-demo use. It lands the same day TechCrunch published a piece arguing robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era, with robot bodies waiting on the models. Worth watching as the second data point this week that vision-language-action work is moving toward narrow, revenue-bearing industrial deployments instead of general-purpose humanoids.