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Precise navigation: Mid-360 empowers Wimsha cleaning robots to be smarter
2025/5/19The Mid-360 LiDAR has become the "eyes" of cleaning robots, helping them detect obstacles, avoid collisions with precision, and navigate quickly. In the future, as technology continues to evolve, LiDAR will empower more technological products and cover a wider range of application scenarios, making automation more efficient and reliable.
With technological innovation and rising labor costs, the commercial service robot market is experiencing explosive growth. According to industry forecasts, the global market size has the potential to reach nearly USD 1.5 billion by 2030[1]. LiDAR, with its exceptional environmental sensing capabilities, has become a core technology for improving robots’ autonomous navigation and operational efficiency.
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[1] Frost & Sullivan, Market Research on Global Commercial Service Robots (2023), 2024 August 12th
Challenge: Precision Limitations of Traditional Sensors
Traditional commercial cleaning robots typically use 2D LiDAR for navigation, which provides limited point cloud data. As a result, their positioning stability is poor, making it difficult to achieve precise localization.
The Mid-360 3D LiDAR offers significant advantages. In environments with indistinct or repetitive features (such as rows of shelves in supermarkets), Mid-360 3D LiDAR can capture not only the point cloud data of the shelves themselves, but also data from the tops of the shelves and the ceiling, enabling precise localization.
Supermarket shelf rows: challenging for robot navigation
Solution: Multi-sensor fusion with Mid-360 LiDAR for enhanced efficiency and stability
Wimsha Robot, a well-known cleaning robot manufacturer, has developed efficient and intelligent cleaning solutions. Its T-series cleaning robots integrate multiple sensors, including LiDAR and depth cameras, ensuring they can handle a wide range of complex environments. As a result, these robots have been deployed in more than 800 projects across supermarkets, office buildings, hotels, and factories.
Based on sensors such as LiDAR, the robot utilizes a "local probabilistic map with time information" technology to accurately represent the positions of objects and obstacles in the environment, while also recording when objects appear, move, and how long they persist. This enables the robot to not only perceive its surroundings with high accuracy, but also to plan paths more intelligently, avoid collisions, and ensure both the efficiency and safety of cleaning tasks.
Point cloud visualization
The Mid-360, mounted on top of the Wimsha Robot T1 cleaning robot, is a high-performance, compact 3D LiDAR developed by Livox specifically for mobile robots. Featuring an ultra-wide 360° × 59° field of view, it captures richer environmental features to help robots perceive more complex environments. Its compact size makes it easy to deploy, with a range of up to 40 meters at 10% reflectivity and the ability to output 200,000 point cloud data points per second.
The Mid-360 features a vertical field of view of 59°, with 52° above the horizontal plane and 7° below. The point cloud data captured above the Wimsha Robot T1 is used for navigation and localization, while the data below the robot is utilized for obstacle avoidance. With just one LiDAR sensor, both functions are achieved, offering excellent cost-effectiveness.
Real-time environmental perception with Mid-360
Application Results: Strong Adaptability, Efficient and Safe
In environments such as automated factories, office buildings, and supermarkets, the Wimsha Robot T1 cleaning robot equipped with the Mid-360 demonstrates outstanding performance.
Automated Factories: Multi-robot collaboration is becoming a key trend in modern automated factories. With the help of the Mid-360 3D LiDAR, the Wimsha Robot T1 can accurately perceive dynamic environments, such as moving AMRs, AGVs, and real-time layout changes, enabling high-precision navigation.
At the same time, with customized sensor fusion solutions and open interfaces, the Wimsha Robot T1 can seamlessly connect to various AGV scheduling systems, enabling coordinated task scheduling. This not only improves cleaning efficiency but also ensures operational safety.
Wimsha Robot T1 navigating through the factory
Office Buildings: The Wimsha Robot T1 cleaning robot can efficiently handle high-traffic ground floor lobbies and easily navigate complex cafeteria layouts. Even when the office lights are off at night, the robot can operate autonomously, moving flexibly between workstations and reliably completing cleaning tasks, unaffected by lighting conditions.
Wimsha Robot T1 navigating through the office building
Wimsha Robot T1 navigating through the cafeteria
Wimsha Robot T1 navigating through the office at night
Supermarket Scenario: The point cloud features in shelf areas are highly similar, making precise localization difficult with traditional 2D methods. With the Mid-360 LiDAR, the Wimsha Robot T1 can quickly localize using ceiling features, enabling stable navigation between supermarket shelves.
Wimsha Robot T1 navigating through the supermarket
The Mid-360 LiDAR has become the "eyes" of cleaning robots, helping them detect obstacles, avoid collisions with precision, and navigate quickly. In the future, as technology continues to evolve, LiDAR will empower more technological products and cover a wider range of application scenarios, making automation more efficient and reliable.
Livox Technology Company Limited (Livox) is an independent company founded through DJI's internal incubation program and dedicated to the development of 3D lidar technology.
Livox was founded in 2016 with the resolve to break through technological barriers in the lidar industry and reduce the threshold for mass production by producing high-quality, reliable, and cost-efficient lidar sensors that can be applied in a wide range of fields, including the automotive industry, smart cities, surveying and mapping, and mobile robots.
Over the past few years, Livox has applied for 587 patents for its unique sensor designs and rotating mirror hybrid solid-state lidar technology. Since the Mid product series was rolled out in January 2019, Livox has served more than 1500 customers, from 26 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and the European Union.