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How Machines Sense the World: A Practical ESP32 Sensor Guide

From a dusk-light LDR circuit to a multi-sensor rover, one ESP32-S3 guide connects GPIO, ADC, I2C, SPI, hysteresis, persistence, and fail-safe sensing into a testable perception loop.

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Build Your Own Working Hardware in 10 Steps: An ESP32-C3 Temperature and Humidity Monitor

Ten steps from a documented dev board to a device you can trust: testable spec, four physical blocks, level-checked wiring, hysteresis-stabilised warning, failure-case tests, then enclosure and docs.

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ESP32Embedded Systems

Lyte Raises $165M at a $1.6B Valuation: Physical AI's Bottleneck Is Sensing, Not Models

Perception silicon company Lyte has raised $165M in Series C at a $1.6B post-money valuation, led by Maverick Silicon with Fidelity participating. Lyte has now raised $272M since 2021, having exited stealth in January with $107M aggregate. Its LyteVision platform fuses 4D coherent vision, high-resolution RGB, and IMU onto a single synchronized timeline, measuring position and motion natively at the edge instead of reconstructing them in software. CEO Alexander Shpunt's framing: physical AI has a sensing problem before it has a model problem. LyteVision won CES 2026 Best of Innovation in Robotics and ships to inspection, logistics, and manufacturing customers; the new money goes to production scale, perception AI, and deployments.

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Slamtec Aurora S Integrated AI Spatial Perception System

Slamtec Aurora S is an integrated AI spatial perception system with dual fisheye cameras, IMU and processor built into the body; LiDAR is optional — without it, Aurora S still delivers AI-VSLAM, semantic segmentation and 3DGS reconstruction, while adding an external LiDAR brings extra mechanical structure, wiring and extrinsic calibration complexity.

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SensorsSpatial perception

Tensopt Sky Eye SIC-MR-30 7D Spatial Intelligence Camera

Tensopt, inheriting 60+ years of precision optoelectronics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xi'an Institute of Optics, debuted its Sky Eye SIC-MR-30: a proprietary single-optical-path dual-mode architecture performing 3D ranging and 2D semantic imaging simultaneously on one hardware, front-end fusing RGB, depth, point cloud and temporal information into 7D data (XYZ + RGB + timestamp); 0.15-30 m range with <1% distance precision, up to 30.72M points/s, on-board AI outputting colored depth point clouds directly, with standout detection of transparent and highly reflective objects.

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SensorsSmart Camera for Spatial Intelligence

Intel RealSense D585 Depth Camera (V5 Processor)

The latest RealSense D585 pairs a V5 processor and fifth-generation architecture with on-camera depth and edge-AI compute: 12 cm to 10 m+ ranging, a 120° ultra-wide FOV at 60 FPS, IP65 as standard, and dual RGB plus stereo structured light — one camera covering the full perception stack from manipulation to navigation.

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SensorsDepth cameras

Orbbec Physis Robotics Vision Series

Orbbec's next-gen robotics vision series unveiled at WRC 2026: 257 g body, 63 mm stereo baseline, 120°x90° FOV, dual 1920x1200@60fps color streams, 0.1 m to 10 m+ depth range, with integrated IMU and AI depth engine that pushes depth computation, synchronization and edge processing onto the camera itself — turning the sensor from data collector into data processor.

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SensorsDepth cameras

SolidVue SV120 Area-Array SPAD-SoC dToF Chip

SolidVue SV120 from Korea: an area-array SPAD-SoC using CMOS-process SPAD pixels and a full-chip dToF architecture, up to 512x384 resolution and 48 m range, targeting mass production in Q2 2027 — entering a crowded single-chip color SPAD-SoC race against in-house efforts from RoboSense, Hesai and Huawei as well as chip vendors such as Fushi Technology and Lingming Photonics.

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SensorsSPAD-SoC

ZVISION NZ1 Wide-Angle 3D LiDAR for All Scenarios

ZVISION's NZ-series semi-solid-state LiDAR: 240° horizontal and 80° vertical FOV, up to 150 m range (115 m per other sources), shown in 96- and 192-line configurations; its SPAD-SoC receiver plus semi-solid-state scanning is a rare combination in short-range LiDAR, targeting drones, robot dogs, autonomous sweepers, delivery robots, forklifts and mowers.

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SensorsLiDAR

Seyond Hummingbird D1R Solid-State Ultra-Wide-Angle LiDAR

Seyond's solid-state LiDAR optimized for robotics: pure electronic scanning with zero mechanical moving parts, a 140°x100° FOV and detection of obstacles as low as 10 cm — high reliability and long life for mobile robots, AMRs and autonomous forklifts.

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SensorsLiDAR

Wanji WLR-750L Solid-State LiDAR-Video Integrated Sensor

A solid-state LiDAR-video integrated sensor that simultaneously outputs 1200-class dense point clouds and 1600x1200 high-resolution RGBD, with millisecond-level synchronization and pixel-level alignment between point cloud and image — native RGB+Depth fusion, already winning design-ins from multiple embodied robotics companies.

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SensorsLiDAR

Wanji WLR-723 Non-Repetitive Scanning 100° Full-FOV LiDAR

The world's first non-repetitive-scanning LiDAR with a 100° full FOV: vertical FOV from -10° to +90°, up to 70 m range, 319k points/s and ±2 cm precision, accumulating point clouds evenly across the FOV for embodied robots, AMRs and other large-FOV close-range perception scenarios.

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SensorsLiDAR

Livox Mid-360L 360° Hybrid Solid-State LiDAR

The Livox Mid-360L is a 360° hybrid solid-state LiDAR for mobile robots, using non-repetitive scanning with a 360° horizontal and 44° vertical field of view. It reduces the near blind zone to 0.1 m, provides a typical 45 m range at 10% reflectivity, and outputs 100,000 points/s on the first return. The 65×65×63 mm sensor weighs 245 g, draws 4.2 W, accepts 12–27 V DC, and is rated IP67 for space- and payload-constrained AGVs/AMRs, service robots, and inspection platforms.

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SensorsLiDAR

Hesai ETX 6D Full-Color LiDAR (Picasso SPAD-SoC)

A 6D full-color LiDAR built on Hesai's Picasso SPAD-SoC: every pixel carries depth and RGB color simultaneously in real-time imaging, supporting up to 4320-line full-color 4K perception with native RGBD output from a single chip — pointing LiDAR from geometry sensing toward spatial vision, with mass production planned for H2 2026.

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SensorsLiDAR

Hesai JT128 Mini Hyper-Hemispherical 360° LiDAR

The flagship of Hesai's JT-series robot LiDARs, featuring 128 independent transceiver channels, up to 1.15M points/s single-return point rate and a 360°x89° hyper-hemispherical FOV; already chosen by 50+ robotics companies including Unitree and Ant Lingbo, making it one of the mainstream 360° LiDARs for robotics at WRC 2026.

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SensorsLiDAR

Hesai Picasso 6D Full-Color LiDAR SPAD-SoC Chip

Hesai's Picasso SPAD-SoC fuses color imaging and ToF ranging at pixel level on a single chip, sensing 3D space (XYZ) and object color (RGB) simultaneously and outputting color point clouds directly; photon detection efficiency (PDE) exceeds 40%, debuting in the ETX LiDAR series with up to 4320-line full-color 4K perception, mass production targeted for H2 2026.

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SensorsSPAD-SoC

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Open Robot Follows Laser Pointer

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GRIP: Full-Body Motion Capture with Just 4 IMUs

@tokufxug · 542 views · 2026-08-18

GRIPIMU

Safety Airy - 192-beam hemispherical digital LiDAR for robot safety

RoboSense (HKEX: 02498) is a pioneering robotics platform company for Physical AI. Based on its in-house optoelectronic chips and perception algorithms, and supported by its scaled mass production capabilities, RoboSense provides robots with core components and infrastructure, including LiDAR and Space Camera. Its products have been deployed at scale across more than ten application areas, including smart vehicles, Robotaxi, robotic lawn mowers, autonomous logistics, embodied

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LiDARSafety Perception

Optical encoders | Nanotec

Nanotec - precise and efficient drive solutions! Click here for information on Optical encoders

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EncodersNanotec

NOE2 - Optical 3-channel encoder

NOE2 optical 3-channel encoder: 1,000–4,000 CPR incremental resolution, 5 V / 24 V supply versions, for shaft diameters 5–15 mm, with line driver output.

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Optical encodersEncoders

NOE1 - 3-channel miniature encoder

NOE1 3-channel miniature reflective optical encoder: 500–2,000 CPR incremental resolution, 5 V supply, for shaft diameters 4–6 mm.

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Optical encodersEncoders

NME2 - High-resolution magnetic encoder

High-resolution magnetic encoder: incremental resolution 4,096–16,384 CPR, 17-bit SSI single-turn absolute, max speed 12,000 rpm for accurate positioning and speed control.

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Magnetic encodersEncoders

NME3 - Compact magnetic encoder

Compact magnetic encoder: ✓incremental resolution: 500 – 4,096 CPR ✓SSI Resolution: 16 bit ✓maximum speed: 30,000 rpm ✓for shaft diameters: 4 – 6.35 mm

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Magnetic encodersEncoders

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