RoboSense

A Shenzhen LiDAR company, listed in Hong Kong, that has extended its automotive LiDAR technology into robot sensing.

RoboSense was founded in Shenzhen in August 2014 by chairman Chunxin Qiu together with Xiaorui Zhu and Letian Liu. LiDAR (light detection and ranging) is a sensor that measures distance with laser light to directly produce a 3D point cloud of the surroundings; RoboSense started with mechanical spinning LiDAR before mass-producing automotive-grade units such as its M series and solid-state units, and by early 2024 was described as the world's largest automotive LiDAR supplier, with shareholders including BYD, Xiaomi, and Cainiao. The company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 5, 2024 (ticker 2498). Over the past two years it has extended into robotics, launching the hemisphere-field-of-view Airy LiDAR and the AC1 active camera, which combines depth and RGB, and open-sourcing drivers and perception algorithms for quadrupeds, humanoids, and mobile robots.

ExampleMounting one Airy unit on a quadruped or humanoid's head lets it see both its surroundings and the ground under its feet at once, useful for mapping and obstacle avoidance.

Also called

RoboSense Technology

Related

LiDAR · RoboSense Airy · RoboSense AC1 · Solid-State LiDAR · Hesai Technology · Autonomous Driving

Sources

RoboSense - Wikipedia

As of

2026-09