Orbbec

A Shenzhen maker of 3D vision sensors, and a common supplier of the depth cameras used on robots.

Orbbec was founded in Shenzhen in 2013 by Howard Huang, who came from a postdoctoral research background; it also has a team in Michigan, and it trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market (ticker 688322). It builds a full range of 3D vision sensors, covering structured light, indirect time-of-flight (iToF), stereo, and lidar, and it designs its own depth-computation chips. In robotics, its most widely used products are the Gemini 330 series of stereo depth cameras and the Femto Bolt, made in partnership with Microsoft to be compatible with Azure Kinect; the Gemini 330 series has been integrated into NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor. According to Wikipedia, its vision systems were used on the Tiangong Ultra robot that won the 100-meter race at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, and the company was profitable through the first three quarters of that year.

ExampleLabs often mount a Femto Bolt at the edge of a table as a third-person camera to capture point clouds for training manipulation policies.

Related

Orbbec Gemini 330 Series · Orbbec Femto Bolt · Depth Camera (RGB-D Camera) · Structured Light · Time of Flight · RealSense Depth Camera (D435i / D405)

Sources

Orbbec - Wikipedia
Orbbec unveils Gemini 330 series

As of

2025-11