Seeing Machines breaks new ground at CES 2026 with 3D Cabin Perception Mapping
Canberra, Australia — Jan. 13, 2026 — Seeing Machines, the vision-based safety technology company, used CES 2026 to unveil its next-generation 3D Cabin Perception Mapping platform, a clean-sheet architecture that delivers real-time, in-cabin understanding designed to accelerate scalable safety innovation across future mobility.
From exterior to interior perception
Automated driving has long relied on exterior perception mapping to reconstruct the world around a vehicle. Seeing Machines’ new platform flips the lens inward. Demonstrated live in Las Vegas, the system builds a comprehensive, real-time digital model of the vehicle cabin, enabling a holistic, accurate and scalable approach to interior sensing. The architecture is built to support multiple cameras, multiple occupants and a wide range of features from a single, high-trust perception layer.
Unified 3D layer, not feature-by-feature
Traditional interior sensing pipelines often tackle one feature at a time, which can create inconsistency and brittleness when sensor data becomes noisy or intermittent. Seeing Machines’ 3D Cabin Perception Mapping solves for the entire cabin simultaneously. By maintaining a unified understanding of people and space, it helps deliver more consistent outputs across features and sustains accuracy even when inputs vary.
Build once, deploy widely
A key innovation is an abstraction layer that decouples feature development from underlying camera configurations and raw sensing implementations. In practice, that means features can be developed once and deployed across multiple product configurations, potentially reducing development effort, cost and time to market for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.
What the CTO says
“This is a fundamental shift in how interior sensing systems are designed and deployed and the feedback from our CES engagements has been overwhelmingly positive,” said John Noble, Chief Technology Officer at Seeing Machines. “By moving from feature-specific pipelines to a unified 3D perception of the cabin, we enable higher accuracy, consistency and scalability. Importantly, this platform will allow our customers to evolve their individual feature strategies, while dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of developing new safety and user experience capabilities.”
Beyond automotive: robotics and HRI
While the initial focus is automotive, the company says the platform is designed to extend to robotics and other human–machine interaction environments, including human–robot interaction (HRI) scenarios where accurate, scalable perception of people and space is critical. The architecture also supports a mix-and-match approach to 3D technologies, offering deployment flexibility as sensing hardware and use cases evolve.
CES 2026 showcase highlight
At CES, Seeing Machines demonstrated a real-time digital reconstruction of an automotive cabin environment. The live showcase reinforced the company’s commitment to advancing integrated, vision-based safety systems for intelligent, human-centered mobility.
Why it matters
As vehicles add more automation and richer user experiences, understanding what’s happening inside the cabin becomes as important as understanding the road ahead. A reliable 3D perception layer can underpin driver and occupant monitoring, contextual safety responses and adaptive interfaces—while simplifying how features are developed and scaled across platforms and models.
About Seeing Machines (LSE: SEE)
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Australia, Seeing Machines is an industry leader in vision-based monitoring technology that enables machines to see, understand and assist people. Its technology portfolio spans AI algorithms, embedded processing and optics that power products requiring reliable, real-time understanding of vehicle operators. Capabilities range from tracking where a driver is looking to classifying cognitive states related to accident risk. Reliable “driver state” measurement is the end goal of the Driver and Occupant Monitoring System (DMS/OMS) technology Seeing Machines develops for Automotive, Commercial Fleet, Off-road and Aviation. The company operates across Australia, the USA, Europe and Asia, supplying technology solutions and services to leaders in each market vertical. Learn more at www.seeingmachines.com.
Original announcement: PR Newswire
