Company profile
Kudan
Kudan develops spatial perception software for localization, mapping, autonomous navigation and digital twins. Its public materials connect the technology...
Facts
- Segment
- SPATIAL_INTELLIGENCE
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Tokyo
- Founded
- 2011
- Website
- https://www.kudan.io/
About Kudan
Kudan develops core SLAM and sensor-fusion algorithms for machines that must localise and map without dependable GNSS. Its software can combine camera, LiDAR and inertial data, then extend from pose estimation into path planning and autonomous navigation. Kudan packages these functions as configurable commercial software, development hardware and complete mobile-robot solutions rather than limiting the technology to an embedded algorithm licence.
The same spatial stack also supports digital-twin workflows. Mobile and vehicle-mounted scanners generate large 3D datasets, while Kudan PRISM manages spatial and asset information for inspection, maintenance and facility operations. Semantic processing and analytics connect those models to autonomous robots, simulation and predictive-maintenance tasks. Customers can use Kudan both to move a robot through a difficult environment and to build the persistent 3D representation used to manage that environment. The company is publicly listed in Japan and supplies technology globally.
Market context
ENABLEMENT
Summary
Type: Spatial perception company
Core: SLAM software
Function: Navigation
Audience: Autonomous OEMs
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Kudan and MRDVS integrate Visual SLAM into smart sensor modules — 2026-06-04
- Kudan expands UCS collaboration into robotics solutions — 2026-02-04
- Kudan selected for NEDO robotics software platform project — 2025-08-05
- Kudan-backed NexMOV-2 AMR enters live factory operations in Taiwan — 2025-05-19
- Kudan integrates Visual SLAM with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor — 2024-06-03
- Kudan partners with ugo on Visual SLAM for avatar robots — 2021-06-18