Event cameras fire per-pixel only when log-intensity changes. No frame buffer, no redundant readout, sub-millisecond latency. Three recent arXiv papers show where this matters — spacecraft pose estimation, visual place recognition, and the benchmarking gap blocking progress.

Ask three robotics executives what constrains their deployments and two will say data before they say models. The third will say models, then pause, and add: "actually, it's still data." Capgemini, Bessemer, and BCG all land on the same bottleneck — and it isn't models.