Li Yuan of Benewake: making eyes for machines, and eleven years of choosing the hard path
北醒李远：给机器造眼睛，与「自讨苦吃」的十一年|物理 AI 50人
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Benewake founder Li Yuan has spent eleven years building lidar for drones, trains, cars, and robots. In the first half of this year, Benewake delivered 250,000 lidar units for robots; robotics accounted for more than half of company revenue, and 2025 robotics revenue doubled from 2024. Li believes measurements such as distance and position from lidar should become learning material that helps machines understand the physical world.
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