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Show HN: Luxonis – OAK 4: spatial AI camera that runs Linux, with up to 52 TOPS

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16 points huntdunbar | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey everyone. This is Hunter, CPO at Luxonis! We built OAK 4 (www.luxonis.com/oak4) to eliminate the need for cloud reliance or host computers in robotics & industrial automation. We brought Jetson Orin-level compute and Yocto Linux directly to our stereo cameras.

This allows you to run full CV pipelines (detection + depth + logic) entirely on-device, with no dependency on a host PC or cloud streaming. We also integrated it with Hub, our fleet management platform, to handle deployments, OTA updates, and collect "edge case" (Snaps) for model retraining.

For this generation, we shipped a Qualcomm QCS8550. This gives the device a CPU, GPU, AI accelerator, and native depth processing ISP. It achieves 52 TOPS of processing inside an IP67 housing to handle rough whether, shock, and vibration. At 25W peak, the device is designed to run reliably without active cooling.

Our ML team also released Neural Stereo Depth running our proprietary LENS(Luxonis Edge Neural Stereo) models directly on the device. Visit www.luxonis.com to learn more!

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tylrtrmbl ◴[11 Dec 25 18:00 UTC] No.46234732[source]▶
What are some of the applications for this? I see a lot of agriculture and warehouse in the launch video but what problems does a stereo camera deliver value for?
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1. CenekAlbl ◴[11 Dec 25 19:18 UTC] No.46235858[source]▶
In agriculture the main ones are collision avoidance, human-machine safety - detecting and computing distance to an object nearby, then crop analysis - counting, measuring the dimensions and estimating ripeness. Warehouse adds use-cases such as inventory tracking, through volume estimation and barcode reading. Navigation (stereo VSLAM is more robust than mono), bin-picking, palletization, free-space estimation for cargo load. Those and many more require accurate depth estimation and strereo vision is the most universally applicable way of doing it, while being accurate and fast enough!
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2. max_mclaughlin ◴[11 Dec 25 20:14 UTC] No.46236519[source]▶
Other verticals are smart cities, AMRs, manufacturing, security, and retail. Specific uses range from person detection, license plate recognition, demographic analysis, occupancy measurement, hazard zone monitoring, quality inspection, and street/road monitoring.