{"title":"Orbbec vs RoboSense: Vision & 3D perception compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/orbbec-vs-robosense","comparison":"Orbbec ranks 17 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 88; RoboSense ranks 68 with 80. Orbbec is ahead on deployment, production, firepower and leverage. RoboSense is ahead on progress. Level on commercials, technology and positioning. Both are based in Shenzhen, China. Orbbec: Public, founded 2013. Orbbec is named in 26 signals and RoboSense in 25.","companies":[{"name":"Orbbec","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/orbbec","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":"Public","founded":2013,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Orbbec is a Chinese 3D-vision maker (SSE:688322) with 3,000+ customers across ~100 countries and a claimed >70% share of China's service-robot market, whose FY25 revenue was RMB 941M ($136M, +66.7%) as it turned profitable. It announced a Basler technology partnership (March 2026, extending to joint chip-level and system integration), a CES 2026 Gemini 305 launch with full Jetson Thor compatibility, and a China-Vietnam dual manufacturing hub. It manufactures its own products at millions-unit scale.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":17,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":9,"commercial":8,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"Orbbec develops and sells 3D cameras and vision solutions for robots, including Gemini stereo cameras deployed with global automation companies and used in Universal Robots' AI Trainer.","segment":"Vision & 3D perception","layer":"Sensing"},"signals_total":26,"facts_total":62},{"name":"RoboSense","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/robosense","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"RoboSense is a Chinese lidar maker whose robotics lidar is now its explicit primary growth engine (282,600 robotics units in H1-26, +510% YoY, versus 719,200 total, +170%), on H1-26 revenue of RMB 1.02B (~$142M, +30.2%) with narrowing losses. It unveiled a new EOCENE SPAD-SoC architecture plus Phoenix/Peacock chipsets, and narrowed its FY25 net loss by more than half to RMB 180M, with one source reporting a first quarterly profit in February 2026 (unconfirmed by primary filing this pass). It is not yet profitable.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":68,"score":80,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"RoboSense develops and sells LiDAR sensors, including the E2 and Peacock platforms, for cars and robots such as robotic lawn mowers.","segment":"Vision & 3D perception","layer":"Sensing"},"signals_total":25,"facts_total":34}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}