- Living Optics unveiled a real-time blood perfusion demo on NVIDIA’s Jetson platform, showcasing how its hyperspectral imaging (HSI) can distinguish oxygenated from deoxygenated blood at the edge for surgical, triage, and monitoring use.
- The company’s compact, software-defined platform brings lab-grade spectral vision to healthcare, robotics, food inspection, and industrial applications, while meeting the power and size constraints of real-world edge systems.
- Backed by $25 million in Series A funding, the Oxford spinout is expanding globally, positioning its spectral intelligence as a transformative tool for machine vision across industries from healthcare to environmental monitoring.
PRESS RELEASE – Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), today announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform, offering a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
The live demo showcases how Living Optics’ spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time, providing critical insights that can enhance surgical planning, triage, and patient monitoring. Initially developed for use in a scientific environment, the company’s breakthrough approach now brings high-resolution hyperspectral capabilities to compact, deployable systems at the edge of the network.
This advancement has garnered growing attention across NVIDIA’s ecosystem, including executive audiences seeking to explore next-generation edge AI solutions for multiple use cases and industries. Today, Living Optics’ edge-based solution is better positioned for industrial and remote use, maintaining high imaging fidelity while meeting the performance, power, and size constraints of real-world systems.
“Bringing real-time hyperspectral imaging to the edge is a transformative leap, and the Jetson platform is what makes it possible,” said Dr. Steve Chappell, CTO and Co-founder of Living Optics. “We’re demonstrating how HSI can deliver practical, high-impact value in industrial quality control, environmental monitoring, and remote sensing, from factory floors to wildfire zones and coastal waters.”
By turning spectral insights into immediate, actionable data, Living Optics bridges the gap between scientific imaging and applied AI. Its software-defined platform enables developers and researchers to extract the unique spectral fingerprints of materials, tissues, or substances, enhancing machine perception across various industries.
Hyperspectral imaging traditionally required large lab-based systems. Living Optics’ innovation lies in making it fast, compact, and accessible for integration into healthcare, robotics, food inspection, and smart manufacturing, wherever decisions need to be made at the edge.
With use cases expanding rapidly and interest from healthcare and industrial partners alike, Living Optics continues to demonstrate how real-time spectral intelligence can reshape machine vision across the global economy.
About Living Optics
Living Optics is revolutionizing machine vision by making hyperspectral imaging widely accessible. Its full-stack solution, combining pioneering cameras with advanced software, captures rich spectral data far beyond the reach of human vision or conventional imaging systems. This empowers AI-enhanced insights across a wide range of real-world applications, including food, healthcare, security, academia, and industry.
A spinout from the University of Oxford, Living Optics is backed by leading investors and headquartered in the U.K., with a growing global presence spanning Europe, the Americas, and Asia. In September 2022, the company raised $25 million in Series A funding to accelerate the commercial rollout of its breakthrough platform.
