# Robot Eyes: Vision & Pose — LiDAR camera for your robot

> LiDAR camera for your robot (iPhone/iPad app by Colin Rooney.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/robot-eyes-vision-and-pose/id6813734887 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Colin Rooney](https://appshunter.io/developer/1838817479)
- Category: Developer Tools, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-24
- Data updated: 2026-10-02

## What is Robot Eyes?

Give any robot eyes with the iPhone you already have.

Robot Eyes turns an iPhone Pro into a robot's camera and a dataset recorder at the same time, from one camera session,
so the live stream and the saved recording share one clock and one frame counter.

RECORD
• Color video (HEVC), LiDAR depth and confidence maps, accelerometer and gyroscope, and the camera's position and
  orientation from ARKit, with per-frame camera intrinsics.
• The open Stray Scanner dataset layout, readable by existing tools, plus a session.json that summarizes rates,
  thermal state, battery and completeness.
• Crash-safe fragmented video, a clear Complete / Incomplete state for every session, Keep pins, bulk Select ▸ Delete,
  and Share with real progress and a Cancel that works.

STREAM
• Live camera over the USB cable in the Mobcam wire format (the one Moblin uses), 15 fps by default, adapting to heat.
• A once-a-second status message: frame rates, thermal, battery, free storage, camera tilt, and optionally the camera's
  position, heading and speed at 5 to 15 Hz.
• A small HTTP file server for the measurement files, so a computer can grade a run seconds after it ends.
• Your computer may start and stop recordings, if you allow it.
• A ROS 2 camera adapter (Humble and Jazzy) publishes Image and CameraInfo, with checkerboard calibration support.
• Wi-Fi is off by default. Turn it on and receivers must present the access token shown in Settings.

MADE FOR THE BENCH
• Every screen carries a one-word label, so "be on the Record view" is a checkable instruction.
• A heads-up display in words, not icons: what the stream is doing, what the disk is doing, what to do next.
• Presets for a general recorder and for the Robo Bump Truck, the RC truck this app was built to drive.

PRIVACY
• No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Nothing leaves the phone unless you connect a receiver or
  tap Share. Support: rooneytech.pages.dev/robot-eyes

REQUIRES
• An iPhone with a LiDAR scanner (iPhone 12 Pro and later Pro models) and iOS 18.6 or newer.

Robot Eyes is built on the open-source Stray Scanner recorder (MIT). Source and the ROS adapter:
github.com/12mv2/robo-bump-truck-ros

## Is Robot Eyes safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Robot Eyes.

## Is Robot Eyes legit?

Robot Eyes: Vision & Pose appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Robot Eyes is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-24

Pull a whole session over Wi-Fi or USB. Video supports resumable transfers, and the depth and confidence frames come down as a single archive each instead of thousands of files. The listing reports an exact size for every file so a transfer can be checked, and video is held back until a recording is finalised.

ARKit tracking quality is now recorded and visible. Each session records which tracking states occurred, how many frames were degraded and when it first happened, and the recorder keeps a warning on screen for the rest of the recording so a brief loss of tracking is still visible afterwards.

Corrected text on the Calibrate page. It previously said the app records a lens-distortion table. It does not: iOS exposes no distortion table for the camera used here, so those coefficients are zero in every session. Use a checkerboard if you need them.

The bulk-select button now reads Select all and toggles.

Fixed: the status tile could cover the target box during guided calibration capture, and focus could stay locked after a capture ended.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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All apps by Colin Rooney: https://appshunter.io/developer/1838817479

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