RoboSense AC1

A robot vision sensor from RoboSense that combines active depth sensing, a color camera, and an IMU in one module.

The AC1 is the first product in lidar maker RoboSense’s “Active Camera” line. It packages a fully solid-state active depth-sensing module (a VCSEL laser emitter paired with an SPAD single-photon detector chip), an RGB color camera, and an IMU (inertial measurement unit) into one unit, with synchronization and fusion done in hardware, so it outputs already-aligned depth, image, and pose data. Per the published specs, it ranges up to 70 meters, has roughly 1 cm depth accuracy within 5 meters, a depth field of view of 120°×60°, and works in bright light up to 100 kLux. It targets two problems: the hassle of calibrating and synchronizing a lidar, a camera, and an IMU bolted together separately, and the fact that ordinary depth cameras fail outdoors in strong sunlight. Its companion “AI-Ready” ecosystem open-sources drivers, calibration tools, SLAM, and perception algorithms; the follow-up AC2 model is aimed at close-range manipulation.

ExampleAn AC1 mounted on an outdoor inspection robot runs the official open-source robosense_ac_slam package, using depth, image, and IMU data together for lidar-inertial-visual odometry and mapping.

Also called

RoboSense AC1 Active Camera, Active Camera AC1

Related

Depth Camera · Direct Time of Flight · Single-Photon Avalanche Diode · Inertial Measurement Unit · Multi-Sensor Fusion · RoboSense

Sources

RoboSense AC1 产品页（英文） (Chinese)
速腾聚创 AC1 产品页（中文） (Chinese)
RoboSense-Robotics GitHub（AC 驱动、标定、SLAM 开源仓库） (Chinese)

As of

2026-09