RoboSense launches world's first fully automated digital lidar production line with annual capacity of 500,000 units per line | Heart Capital PORTFOLIO

On November 4, 2026, RoboSense, a portfolio company of Heart Capital, announced the official launch of the world's first fully automated digital LiDAR production line. Located at the Honghualing Base of Shenzhen Nanshan Intelligent Manufacturing — China's first "vertical industrial park" demonstration project — the line integrates highly automated precision manufacturing, digital process control, and comprehensive quality inspection. With just six operators per line and an annual capacity of 500,000 units, it efficiently supports the company's growing large-scale delivery needs.

Backed by the Greater Bay Area's complete industrial chain resources and Shenzhen's robotics industry cluster advantages, RoboSense leverages the innovative spatial layout of "vertical industrial parks" to drive efficient collaboration across R&D, precision manufacturing, and customer applications within a tighter radius. This accelerates the path of the "eye of robotics" toward higher precision and fully automated mass delivery, laying a solid perceptual foundation for the diverse applications of the robotics industry.

Automation Rate Reaches 99%

Six Operators Per Line, 500,000 Units Annual Capacity

RoboSense's fully automated digital LiDAR production line spans precision assembly, adhesive dispensing, active alignment (AA) optical adjustment, calibration, testing, and packaging — equipped with over 100 high-precision automated machines covering more than 70 process steps. Thanks to this highly automated manufacturing system, the final assembly stage requires only six operators to coordinate the entire system, achieving a comprehensive automation rate of 99% and a single-line annual capacity of 500,000 units.

Supported by a digital production management system, the new line achieves 100% full-process traceability of production data, with 98% fully automated inspection coverage. The line also features a fully automated calibration system: every digital LiDAR coming off the line undergoes aging tests, calibration tests, and comprehensive performance tests, with 3,640+ inspection items across optical, electrical, mechanical, acoustic, and functional safety dimensions — ensuring high precision and reliability even at mass production scale.

The launch of this new production line further enhances RoboSense's large-scale delivery capabilities. Currently, the RoboSense MARS intelligent manufacturing base operates over 22 automated production lines, with one digital LiDAR rolling off the line every 8 seconds on average, and a planned annual capacity of 4 million units.

"Vertical Collaboration" with Industry Partners

Accelerating Robotics into Real-World Applications

The Honghualing Base has already attracted industry leaders including RoboSense, EngineAI, and DOBOT. From core perception components like digital LiDAR to various forms of embodied intelligent robots, the robotics industry chain is achieving vertical agglomeration here, making the vision of "upstream and downstream are just upstairs and downstairs; the industrial park is the industry chain" a reality.

A digital LiDAR that rolls off the RoboSense line in the morning can, without long-distance transportation, enter the development, testing, and production processes of robotics industry partners in the same base via the park's spiral ramps and multi-level elevated logistics platforms. The shortened physical distance brings synchronized improvements in communication, adaptation, validation, and product iteration efficiency.

Leveraging its full-stack self-developed chips, digital product platform, and large-scale manufacturing capabilities, RoboSense has built a complete capability chain spanning core chip R&D, product development, precision manufacturing, and mass production delivery. The launch of this fully automated digital LiDAR production line marks a new stage of higher efficiency and greater scale for RoboSense's digital products, providing strong support for the realization of the company's 4 million-unit annual capacity plan.

Going forward, RoboSense will continue to leverage its advantages in high-quality intelligent manufacturing and million-unit-scale automotive-grade mass delivery, working with upstream and downstream partners across the robotics industry to accelerate the entry of countless robots into the real world — making people's lives smarter and better.

Founded in 2022, Heart Capital is a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage Chinese technology startups.

The Heart Capital team is primarily composed of founding partners and core investors from Lightspeed China, alongside seasoned investors with deep industry backgrounds. The team's past investments include MetaX (688802.SH), Xpeng Motors (NYSE: XPEV, 09868.HK), Full Truck Alliance (NYSE: YMM), SUNMI (06810.HK), RoboSense (02498.HK), Ambiq Micro (NYSE: AMBQ), Hanshow Technology Co., Ltd. (301275.SZ), FinVolution (NYSE: FINV), HERE (NASDAQ: HERE), as well as LandSpace, MicroNano Space, Baichuan, Yunmanman Cold Chain Logistics, World Logistics, FanDeng Reading, and Lanhu.

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