Product profile
Helios 16
Helios 16 is RoboSense's 16-beam mechanical 3D LiDAR for robots, autonomous vehicles and roadside systems. It combines 360-degree horizontal coverage, a 30...
Facts
- Company
- RoboSense
- Product type
- component
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- 3D environmental perception
- Website
- https://store.robosense.ai/products/helios-16
About Helios 16
Helios 16 is the 16-channel member of RoboSense's Helios mechanical LiDAR family, built for robotic vehicles, autonomous navigation and V2X installations. The sensor scans a full 360 degrees horizontally and 30 degrees vertically, with sixteen evenly distributed channels. RoboSense specifies 150 m maximum range and 110 m at 10% NIST reflectivity, plus a blind zone of 0.2 m or less and typical one-centimetre range precision.
At selectable 5, 10 or 20 Hz rotation rates, Helios 16 outputs up to 288,000 points per second in single-return mode or 576,000 in dual-return mode. Its 100 mm diameter and height, 1 kg mass, 9–32 V input and IP67/IP6K9K enclosure suit integration on mobile machines exposed to vibration, dust and weather. Ethernet/UDP output supplies point-cloud data to the host autonomy stack, which performs navigation and vehicle control.
Market context
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Summary
Type: 3D LiDAR sensor
Core: Helios 16
Function: Environmental ranging
Audience: Autonomy teams
Specifications
- connection
- 100Base-T1 Ethernet; UDP output
- dimensions_mm
- Ø100 × 100 mm
- frame_rate
- 5 Hz / 10 Hz / 20 Hz
- horizontal_angular_resolution
- 0.1° / 0.2° / 0.4° at 5 / 10 / 20 Hz
- horizontal_field_of_view
- 360°
- ingress_protection
- IP67 / IP6K9K
- laser_lines
- 16 lines
- mass_g
- 1000 g
- maximum_range_m
- 110 m at 10% NIST reflectivity m
- operating_temperature
- −40 °C to +60 °C
- operating_voltage
- 9–32 V
- point_rate
- 288,000 points/s single return; 576,000 points/s dual return
- power_consumption_w
- 11 W
- range_precision_cm
- Typical cm
- vertical_angular_resolution_deg
- 2 degrees
- vertical_field_of_view
- 30° (−15° to +15°)
Operations
- Environment
- mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, outdoor automation, roadside infrastructure
- Primary user
- robot OEMs, autonomy engineers, mapping teams, system integrators
- Role
- environmental ranging, point-cloud sensing, obstacle-detection input
- Interaction model
- host-controlled Ethernet sensor, configurable scan rate and return mode
- Mobility class
- fixed onboard sensor
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- RoboSense debuts EOCENE SPAD-SoC architecture and Phoenix and Peacock chipsets — 2026-04-21
- RoboSense reports Q1 2026 LiDAR sales of 330,300 units as robotics shipments surpass automotive — 2026-04-08
- RoboSense reports first-ever quarterly profit in Q4 2025 — 2026-03-25
- RoboSense secures exclusive design win for Baidu's next-gen Apollo Go Robotaxi — 2026-03-12
- RoboSense tops 2026 China Embodied AI LiDAR Brand Rankings — 2026-01-16
- RoboSense Sold 303,000 Robotics LiDAR Units in 2025 — 2026-01-15
- RoboSense delivers 120,000 LiDAR units in October 2025 — 2025-11-11
- RoboSense LiDARs Now Compatible with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Platform — 2025-09-12