Why lidar makers are betting on their own chips

Lidar was once the most contested sensor in autonomous driving. Supporters argued it supplies 3D information cameras cannot, a safety redundancy high-level driver assistance cannot do without. Opponents, led by Tesla, called it expensive, bulky and transitional. Yet since 2025, as advanced driver assistance spread, lidar has not exited, it has entered mass production, and … Read more

The lidar mower that actually makes money: inside Naisilao’s bet

A Chinese yard-robot company just made the case that lidar, not RTK, is the profitable path for robotic mowers — and that the real competition is no longer the sensor, but the shelf. Naisilao Intelligent Technology, whose brands MOVA and NexLawn sell lidar mowers, paused an RTK prototype back in 2022 because satellite signals drop … Read more

RoboSense ships 719,200 LiDAR units in H1 2026, robot sales up 510%, Q2 up 170%

On 9 July, RoboSense reported first-half 2026 LiDAR shipments of 719,200 units, up 170% year on year. The robot segment contributed 282,600 units, a 510% surge, while ADAS delivered 436,600 units, up 98%, further cementing a ‘robot plus vehicle’ dual-engine structure. In the second quarter alone, total shipments reached 388,900 units, with robot LiDAR at … Read more

Past one million cars, Huawei Qiankun re-architects its autonomous driving for safety

Seeing more clearly Huawei stays on multi-sensor fusion, recently shipping distributed millimetre-wave radar, high-resolution solid-state lidar, a lidar-vision unit called Limera, and an 896-line dual-path lidar. The point is cross-verification: when one sensor degrades in fog, glare or occlusion, the others keep reading the road. Understanding the world Beyond perception, Qiankun moves to the WEWA … Read more

Shenzhen’s RoboSense Ships 719,200 LiDARs in H1, Robotics Segment Up 510%

RoboSense LiDAR shipments H1 2026

Shenzhen-based RoboSense (速腾聚创) shipped 719,200 LiDAR units in the first half of 2026, a 170% year-on-year jump, according to company figures released on July 9. The robot-industry segment led the acceleration: 282,600 units, up 510% from the same period last year. Automotive LiDAR, still the larger business, rose 98% to 436,600 units. In the second … Read more