RoboSense Airy

A hemispherical-field-of-view digital lidar from RoboSense for robots, covering 360°×90° with a single unit.

Airy is a robot-oriented lidar from RoboSense, described by the company as the first “digital hemispherical lidar.” It is roughly the size of a ping-pong ball (60 mm diameter, 63 mm tall) and weighs under 240 grams; it has a 360° horizontal field of view and a 90° vertical field of view, in 192-line and 96-line versions, with a range of 60 meters (about 30 meters against a 10%-reflectivity target) and roughly 1 cm ranging accuracy. Traditional spinning lidars have a narrow vertical field of view, so when mounted on a robot they often can’t see the ground right beneath or beside it, requiring multiple units to be combined; a hemispherical field of view lets a single unit cover both the surroundings and the nearby ground at once. It uses a chip-based transmit/receive design with digital detection, and targets quadruped robots, humanoids, home and garden robots, AMRs (autonomous mobile robots), and autonomous forklifts, for SLAM mapping, obstacle avoidance, and traversability assessment.

ExampleA quadruped robot dog carries one Airy unit on its head, which sees both the obstacles ahead and the steps beneath its feet, cutting down blind spots during obstacle avoidance and mapping.

Also called

RoboSense Airy Hemispherical LiDAR

Related

LiDAR · LiDAR Channels · Field of View · LiDAR SLAM · Livox Mid-360 · RoboSense

Sources

RoboSense Airy 产品页 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09