Robosense to supply lidar for self-driving Toyotas

China’s RoboSense has agreed to a deal to provide lidar to Japanese automaker Toyota for its self-driving cars.

In confirming the arrangement, RoboSense, based in Shenzhen in Guangdong province, just north of Hong Kong, becomes the first Chinese Lidar provider in Toyota’s supply chain.

Although Toyota has a massive presence across the world and again finished last year sitting atop the automakers’ global sales charts, the agreement with RoboSense is initially focused on China and covers one of the Japanese giant’s joint ventures (JVs) there, with Tianjin-based FAW.

FAW-Toyota is just one of several JVs Toyota operates in China, alongside others with local automakers GAC and BYD.

Under the terms of the new deal, RoboSense will supply lidar for cars in the FAW-Toyota range. Specifically which ones will benefit has not yet been confirmed, but the JV offers versions of such familiar names as the Corolla, Crown and RAV4.

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