From award-winning 25GigE cameras to factory-calibrated 3D imaging, LUCID is demonstrating how customer-driven innovation continues to shape the future of industrial vision.
Walking the floor at Automate 2026, one thing becomes immediately clear: machine vision systems are evolving faster than ever. As manufacturers demand higher resolution, greater processing speeds and increasingly sophisticated AI-driven inspection, camera technology is having to keep pace.
For LUCID, that evolution isn’t simply about releasing faster cameras. It’s about creating scalable imaging platforms that remove system bottlenecks, simplify deployment and solve the real-world integration challenges faced by customers every day. At the company’s booth, Alexis Teissie, Director of Product Management, outlined how LUCID’s latest developments, from award-winning 25GigE cameras to factory-calibrated 3D vision systems, are helping integrators prepare for the next generation of industrial automation.
“We don’t want to make products unique simply for the sake of being unique, we want to solve customer pain points.”
Building for the Next Generation
One of the centrepieces of LUCID’s showcase was its new 25GigE Atlas25 camera range, which recently received a “Gold” Innovators Award by Vision Systems Design at Automate. Built around Sony’s latest fourth-generation sensors, the Atlas25 cameras represent more than simply an increase in bandwidth. They are among the first products built around the newly released GigE Vision 3.0 standard, introducing Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) as a core capability.
For system designers, that’s significant.
Rather than routing image data through the CPU, RDMA enables camera data to stream directly into host memory, or even directly to GPU memory dramatically reducing processor overhead and lowering latency.
“The benefit is that you’re bypassing the CPU entirely,” explains Alexis. “That creates a very efficient, low-latency transfer path.”
As industrial AI applications continue to grow, that efficiency becomes increasingly valuable. Whether processing high-resolution inspection images or feeding deep learning models in real time, removing CPU bottlenecks allows systems to dedicate more computing power where it matters most. For manufacturers building multi-camera systems, the advantages become even more pronounced.
A Clear Upgrade Path
While 25GigE represents LUCID’s highest-performance Ethernet offering to date, Alexis emphasises that customers aren’t expected to make enormous technology leaps overnight.
Instead, the company’s philosophy centres on scalability.
Customers can begin with familiar 1GigE systems before progressing through 2.5GigE, 5GigE, 10GigE and ultimately 25GigE, while remaining within the same ecosystem and sensor family. Because the cameras share Sony’s latest sensor technology across multiple interface speeds, integrators can upgrade performance without fundamentally redesigning entire imaging systems.
“We see it as a very clear upgrade path,” says Alexis. “Customers already know these sensors. They’re proven, they’re high-performing, and they can grow with us as their requirements increase.” That continuity is becoming increasingly valuable as production lines demand ever-higher image resolutions without sacrificing throughput.
“Customers can start with 1GigE and grow all the way to 25GigE while staying within the same ecosystem.”
Scaling Industrial Vision
LUCID also showcased its expanding Triton10 – 10GigE IP67 camera family, demonstrating how GigE Vision 3.0 is beginning to reshape industrial camera architecture beyond flagship products.
Designed for harsh industrial environments, the Triton10 range supports extended operating temperatures without active cooling while offering a growing selection of sensors and lens configurations. The latest additions include support for larger TFL lens mounts and high-resolution global shutter sensors reaching 47 megapixels, with additional sensors scheduled to join the platform.
More importantly, the platform has been designed with multi-camera deployments in mind.
As factories increasingly rely on multiple synchronised cameras across robotics, inspection and logistics systems, reducing system complexity has become just as important as increasing raw performance. LUCID has been actively developing expertise around Precision Time Protocol (PTP) synchronisation, enabling dozens of cameras to operate together without the extensive trigger wiring traditionally required.
Internally, the company is already developing systems incorporating around twenty 10GigE cameras simultaneously, helping customers understand how large-scale Ethernet vision networks can be deployed efficiently. The growing adoption of RDMA and GigE Vision 3.0 provides another building block for these larger installations, allowing image streams to move efficiently through increasingly demanding computing environments.
Engineering Around Customer Problems
One recurring theme throughout the discussion was that many of LUCID’s newest products originate from customer requests rather than internal roadmaps.
That philosophy is perhaps best illustrated by the company’s Phoenix camera platform.
Unlike traditional packaged cameras, Phoenix is designed specifically for OEM integration, allowing customers to configure cameras in the exact form factor required for their equipment. LUCID has expanded the platform to include multi-head camera configurations, including dual-head systems and prototype quad-head designs currently under development.
Rather than asking customers to modify existing cameras to suit their machines, the platform aims to simplify integration from the outset. According to Alexis, many of these developments began life as bespoke customer projects before becoming commercial products in their own right.
“A lot of these products started because someone couldn’t find the solution they needed on the market,” he explains. “We developed it for them, but then we owned the technology and could bring it to a wider audience.”
That customer-led development model has become a defining characteristic of LUCID’s approach and one that differentiates it in an increasingly competitive machine vision market.
Making 3D Vision Easier
Another highlight on the stand was LUCID’s latest evolution of its Helios 3D time-of-flight camera platform. Originally developed for applications including warehouse automation and logistics, the range now encompasses multiple fields of view and indoor and outdoor variants. The newest addition combines a Helios 3D camera with an RGB camera in a factory-calibrated configuration capable of producing colourised point clouds straight out of the box.
Historically, customers wishing to combine RGB imagery with 3D data needed to perform their own calibration, a process that could be both time-consuming and technically demanding.
LUCID has removed that step entirely.
Each camera pair undergoes both intrinsic and extrinsic calibration during manufacturing, with the calibration data permanently stored within the cameras themselves. The result is a fully colourised 3D point cloud without additional calibration work, while maintaining industrial robustness through shock and vibration testing.
“It’s still two separate cameras,” Alexis explains, “but our software recognises the pairing information automatically, allowing users to generate colourised point clouds immediately.” For logistics providers, robotic picking applications and warehouse automation specialists, reducing commissioning time can significantly lower deployment costs.
Simplicity as the Technology Matures
As machine vision technology becomes increasingly mainstream, customer expectations are changing. Where early adopters were often willing to invest considerable effort integrating specialist hardware, today’s users increasingly expect systems to work immediately after installation.
LUCID believes that trend will continue.
“As the technology matures, customers expect more out-of-the-box functionality,” says Alexis.
Factory calibration, broader camera selections and scalable Ethernet platforms all reflect that shift. Rather than asking customers to adapt around the technology, the technology itself is becoming easier to deploy. That evolution is helping accelerate adoption beyond traditional manufacturing into sectors including logistics, autonomous systems and intelligent warehouse automation.
Looking Ahead
Although LUCID continues expanding its product portfolio, Alexis is clear that the company’s long-term focus remains unchanged. As one of the few remaining independent camera manufacturers focused exclusively on imaging components, LUCID has deliberately chosen not to move into complete vision solutions. Instead, its emphasis remains on giving system integrators, OEMs and automation specialists the flexible building blocks they need.
“We’re entirely focused on component supply,” “That allows us to stay nimble, respond quickly to customer requests and continue developing the technologies they actually need.”
Judging by the innovations on display at Automate 2026, that customer-first philosophy continues to drive LUCID’s development roadmap, and positions the company well as industrial imaging enters its next high-speed chapter.
