Hesai Technology announced a series of high-profile product releases and business developments, seeking to advance intelligent driving systems to improve the efficiency and safety of global transportation and save lives. Today's announcements illustrate the company's unmatched prowess in the areas of lidar innovation, advanced manufacturing and rapid commercialization. The first announcement of the day is the launch of Hesai's new AT512 ultra long-range ADAS lidar.

The AT512 is Hesai's top-of-the-line, category killer product and represents a leapfrog advancement in lidar innovation in a trim, compact form factor, targeting automotive OEMs who demand the very best in performance, reliability and safety. The AT512 offers an range of 300 meters at 10% reflectivity with a maximum range of over 400 meters, and an industry-record 12,300,000 points per second point-rate, multiples ahead of the ADAS competitors, resulting in the highest resolution point cloud among any lidar manufacturer at 2400 x 512. The product's sleek physical design measures just 160x100x45mm while offering a 120-degree horizontal field of view and a 25.6-degree vertical field of view.

The AT512 is designed to greatly enhance ADAS systems by improving the vehicle's perception capabilities by providing world class 3D environmental scans at ultra-high resolution, which greatly improves a vehicle's ability to detect objects at long range. This game-changing lidar means AT512 equipped ADAS systems will have 40% more reaction time to avoid dangerous road conditions and significantly improve transportation safety.