Hesai Technology

A Shanghai lidar company whose sensors are used in both cars and robots.

Hesai Technology was founded in Shanghai in October 2014 by Yifan Li (CEO), Kai Sun, and Shaoqing Xiang, building lidar — sensors that measure distance with lasers and output 3D point clouds. Its main customers are automakers and self-driving companies; Wikipedia cites figures putting its share of the automotive lidar market at around 30%. It listed on the Nasdaq in February 2023 and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in September 2025. On robotics, it has launched small lidars with a very wide vertical field of view, such as the JT series, used on embodied-AI robots, delivery and cleaning robots, and AGVs/AMRs (automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots) for mapping, localization, and obstacle avoidance. It reportedly began construction of its first overseas factory in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2025, and plans to raise annual capacity from 2 million to 4 million units in 2026.

ExampleThe JT128 has a 189° vertical field of view, so when mounted on a robot it can see both the floor at its feet and the space overhead at once — a much smaller blind spot than a traditional spinning lidar.

Also called

Hesai, Hesai Group

Related

Hesai JT128 · LiDAR · RoboSense · Livox · Point Cloud · Autonomous Driving

Sources

Hesai Group - Wikipedia
禾赛 JT128 产品页 (Chinese)

As of

2025-11