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WAIC 2026 | RoboSense Forms Strategic Partnership with UAE AI-Native Tech Company Origen
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21 July 2026
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RoboSense, a Chinese robotics perception company, has partnered with Origen, a UAE-based AI-native tech firm, to develop embodied and spatial intelligence systems for Middle Eastern industrial applications including smart cities, manufacturing, and robotics. RoboSense unveiled its second-generation E2 solid-state LiDAR platform at WAIC 2026, built on proprietary SPAD-SoC chips.
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If you build robots that need to see—or sell sensors to companies that do—RoboSense just opened the Middle Eastern market and proved there's a buyer for vertically-integrated perception stacks (chip to sensor to software). Watch who Origen deploys into: that's your customer list.
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AI Infrastructure · Sensors & Instrumentation · Robotics · lidar-sensors · robotics-perception · middle-east-expansion · physical-ai · embodied-intelligence