Black Sesame Technologies
About
About Black Sesame Technologies
Black Sesame Technologies develops high-performance, low-power system-on-chip platforms and supporting software for autonomous driving, intelligent vehicles and edge AI. Its Huashan and Wudang processor families combine proprietary image-signal-processing and neural-processing IP with middleware and development toolchains.
The company has extended that computing stack into robotics through SesameX, a platform covering perception, cognition, decision-making, motion control and safety. Its robotics offer includes compute modules, system-on-modules and ROS-compatible development kits for mobile robots, collaborative arms and other embodied systems. Black Sesame was founded in 2016, is headquartered in Wuhan and has traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 2533 since 2024.
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- AUBO Robotics
Outbound - Compute & Control - AUBO purchased Aura Devkit development kits from Black Sesame Technologies, with the first batch delivered in July 2026
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Team
- Yang Yuxin - Chief Marketing Officer - Leads market and ecosystem development for the SesameX robotics computing platform.
- Shan Jizhang - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Leads the company as it expands automotive-grade AI computing into robotics and embodied-intelligence platforms.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-04 - Commercial Order - Black Sesame delivers first Aura Devkit batch to AUBO Robotics
AUBO purchased the first development-kit batch, and Black Sesame completed delivery in July 2026. The Aura modules provide 70 TOPS of heterogeneous compute for multimodal perception and real-time motion control. A joint industry-university programme targets a dual-arm robot for consumer-electronics assembly, with Black Sesame responsible for compute-chip and module development.
Source - 2025-12-30 - Partnership - SesameX underpins Lenovo robot-development programme
The companies plan next-generation robot products, including robot dogs, based on the SesameX platform. The work combines Black Sesame chips and algorithms with Lenovo system integration and application deployment capabilities. The programme targets commercialization across manufacturing, power, education and service scenarios.
Source - 2025-11-20 - Product Launch - Black Sesame launches SesameX robotics computing platform
SesameX spans hardware, software, toolchains and model ecosystems across perception, cognition, decision, control and safety. The launch introduced Kalos, Aura and Liora modules for wheeled robots, quadrupeds, robot arms and humanoids. Commercial deployments already covered logistics vehicles, quadrupeds and wheeled robots through ecosystem partners.
Source - 2025-08-28 - Partnership - Black Sesame and Deep Robotics form embodied-intelligence partnership
The work combines Black Sesame automotive-grade compute with Deep Robotics robot platforms. Target scenarios include ship inspection, smart construction and research and education. The companies also plan international market development around jointly developed solutions.
Source - 2021-09-07 - Partnership - Hesai and Black Sesame Technologies formed a strategic partnership to combine lidar and autonomous-driving compute
As an innovator and pioneer in the field of LiDAR sensors, Hesai provides high – performance hardware support for the realization of high – level autonomous driving. Lu Wei, Vice President of Global Business Development of Hesai and Ding Ding, Vice President of Black Sesame Products signed a strategic agreement in Shanghai. These Chips can bring a high – performance, safe, and open autonomous driving computing platform to the industry.
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Relations
Relationships
- Lenovo
Robotics R&d Partner - Black Sesame Technologies and Lenovo Research Robotics Lab are collaborating on robot computing platforms, algorithms and products based on SesameX.
- Deep Robotics
Embodied Intelligence Platform Partner - Black Sesame Technologies and Deep Robotics are co-developing embodied-intelligence control platforms and industry solutions.
Commercial
- Black Sesame delivers first Aura Devkit batch to AUBO Robotics
2026-09-04 · Order / contract · Black Sesame Technologies disclosed its first commercial Aura Devkit supply to AUBO Robotics for collaborative-robot development, with all units delivered in July.
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