FARO

FARO Technologies is a 3D measurement and imaging company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. AMETEK agreed on May 6, 2025 to buy it for $44 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about $920 million, and completed the acquisition on July 21, 2025, placing FARO in its Ultra Precision Technologies Division alongside Creaform and Virtek. On January 13, 2026 FARO reorganized into two business units. FARO CREAFORM combines the FARO 3D Measurement segment with Creaform for manufacturing metrology, and FARO INSIGHT, headquartered in Korntal-Münchingen in Germany, runs the reality capture business for construction, geospatial and public safety work.

FARO INSIGHT builds terrestrial, mobile and imaging laser scanners. The Focus terrestrial line runs from Focus Core, with a 100 meter range and up to 2 mm accuracy, through Focus Premium at 200 meters and Focus Premium Max at 400 meters. Focus i.1 and Focus i.1 X were introduced on September 15, 2026 with object accuracy up to 0.9 mm and colorized capture in about 20 seconds using Flash technology, and the i.1 X adds a mountable GNSS and RTK receiver and a 400 meter range. The Orbis mobile scanner pairs the GeoSLAM SLAM algorithm with Flash stationary scans of about 15 seconds, and the Blink imaging laser scanner captures 50 megapixel imagery with up to 4 mm accuracy.

Rovi i.1 is the FARO product built around Gaussian splats. FARO INSIGHT introduced it on September 15, 2026 in partnership with Manifold Tech, a 3D spatial intelligence technology company, as a walk-and-scan device that uses hybrid visual and LiDAR SLAM. The Rovi i.1 product page lists Gaussian splats among its deliverables alongside floorplans, room measurements, volumetric analysis and as-built documentation, and real-time preview lets an operator check coverage before leaving site. The Rovi i.1 tech sheet gives 200,000 points per second, 1.24 kg with handle and battery, 256 GB of storage, about two hours of typical battery life, a range of 40 m at 10 percent reflectivity and 70 m at 80 percent, and 8 mm accuracy measured against 26 known reference points across a 250 square meter area. An optional accessory kit adds an RTK and GNSS unit, a HighRes PanoCam, a close-up camera and a monopod holder.

FARO Sphere XG is the cloud platform that ties the hardware together. It runs in a web browser, aligns point clouds and 360 degree photos to floorplans and 3D models over time for 4D progress tracking, and takes pre-registered Orbis and Blink data from the FARO Stream mobile app. Rovi i.1 captures are uploaded to Sphere XG and processed in the cloud, so FARO says no dedicated workstation or graphics card is needed to work with them. SCENE is the Windows 11 desktop application for registration, cleaning and analysis, with interactive and hybrid registration and a SteamVR headset view, and it requires a dedicated NVIDIA GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM. FARO has announced SCENE 2027 with faster point cloud generation on large projects and an AI filter for glass and mirror reflections.

FARO does not publish prices for Rovi i.1. The device is bought together with a minimum three year software subscription, Scan Essential with one full Sphere XG and SCENE user, 1 TB of storage and 4,000 annual tokens, Scan Professional with three users, 2 TB and 12,000 tokens, or Scan Enterprise with five users, 4 TB and 24,000 tokens. The buyer owns the Rovi i.1 hardware and can renew the subscription when the three year term ends. Focus scanners also connect to Sphere XG and SCENE through a subscription model.