Facts

• Segment: Sensors
• Country: Japan
• Founded: 1946
• Website: https://www.hokuyo-aut.co.jp/

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• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
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Summary

Hokuyo Automatic manufactures lidar scanners, rangefinders, photoelectric sensors and industrial sensing products. Its compact scanning rangefinders are widely used on mobile robots, AGVs and automation systems for obstacle detection, localization and area monitoring.

Market context

Hokuyo is a core sensing supplier for mobile robots and automation systems that need reliable environment perception. Hokuyo supplies lidar and laser range sensors for mobile robot navigation, obstacle detection and automation safety.

Products

• UST-10LX Scanning Rangefinder

Facts

• Website: https://www.hokuyo-aut.co.jp/
• HQ: Osaka, Japan
• Founded: 1946
• Segment: Sensors

Laser range sensing for mobile robots and automation

Hokuyo develops laser range sensors and LiDAR used for detection, localization and navigation in robotics and automation systems.

• Target environment: Subsea inspection, offshore operations, maritime monitoring, ports, ocean sensing and underwater data-collection workflows.
• Deployment model: Sensor component model serving robot builders, AMR developers, automation teams and integrators.
• Customer context: Mobile robot OEMs, industrial automation customers, warehouse robot teams and systems integrators.
• Workflow context: LiDAR sensing, localization, obstacle detection, navigation, industrial automation and mobile robot safety.
• Commercial maturity: Established sensor supplier with robotics relevance through navigation and safety sensing in mobile robots and automation systems.
• Market position: Sensing hardware supplier for mobile robots, AMRs and industrial automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on sensor accuracy, reliability, range, integration support, cost and fit with navigation software.
• Adjacent context: ROVs, AUVs, subsea sensing, offshore inspection, maritime autonomy, ocean data and underwater robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2024-05-22 - Product Launch - Hokuyo releases YLM-10LX solid-state 3D lidar sensor - YLM-10LX uses Lumotive light-control metasurface beam-steering technology.
• 2023-06-01 - Partnership - Hokuyo and Lumotive partner on 3D LiDAR sensing for industrial automation - Hokuyo partnered with Lumotive to develop a 3D LiDAR sensor based on Lumotive's M30 reference design.
• 2021-01-20 - Research Publication - UST-10LX rotating-LiDAR calibration paper evaluates indoor 3D mapping accuracy - The paper presents a low-cost calibration method for matching error between a 2D lidar and rotating mo…
• 2018-10-12 - Research Publication - UST-10LX gait-monitoring paper compares Hokuyo rangefinders in unsupervised walking tests - The paper evaluates scanning laser rangefinders for unobtrusive gait-parameter monitoring i…

Team

• Hitoshi Ozaki - President - Ozaki leads Hokuyo Automatic, a sensor supplier used in robotics and AGV applications.

Context tags

• LiDAR sensor supplier - Stack Layer
• Robotics hardware supply chain - Customer Environment
• LiDAR and laser scanner supplier - Peer Group
• AGV/AMR LiDAR navigation - Workflow