This week, emerging robotics and AI solutions innovator Orbbec debuted the Ethernet-enabled Gemini 335Le depth camera, a solution which supports the adoption of robots operating within industrial environments.
Orbbec unveiled the solution at ProMat 2025, confirming that its Gemini 330 depth camera portfolio will support USB3, GMSL2, and Ethernet, sustaining next-generation industrial robotic use cases.
According to Orbbec, the Gemini 335Le technology promises to ensure real-time stereo-visual data transmission, making it suitable for demanding industrial settings.
The Gemini 335Le solution aims to provide sophisticated stereo vision cameras for robotic end devices such as picking robotic arms, autonomous mobile robots, and forklifts.
The Gemini 335Le contains various characteristics that prepare it for industrial environments, including dust, extreme temperature, lighting, and water resistance.
Moreover, the solution comes with further industrial-ready features, including:
- An IP67 rating
- Industry-standard network protocols
- Precision time protocol-enabled cable-free synchronization
- Power over Ethernet (PoE)
- An open-source SDK
- ROS1/ROS2 support
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, Orin NX, Orin Nano pre-integration
- AGX Xavier for AI-powered edge computing integration
Orbbec: From CES ‘25 to ProMat
Earlier in the year, Orbbec took to the CES 2025 stage to showcase its robotics innovations, a central theme for this year’s CES. Notably, NVIDIA stole the show with its vision of Physical AI—a technological framework empowering the future of robotics.
At the event, Orbbec introduced Pulsar SL450 a high-accuracy LiDAR positioning and navigation for robotics. Pulsar SL450 features direct Time of Flight (dToF) technology, a 270° scanning range, and ≥45m detection capability. These features, therefore, enable the Pulsar SL450 solution to support robotic technology with reliable logistics, security, and 3D reconstruction, again ready for industrial settings.
At the more recent ProMat 2025, Orbbec launched the Gemini 335Le and Pulsar SL450 solutions together “in front of the best and brightest minds in material handling, supply chain, and logistics,” Brad Suessmith, Orbbec’s Robotics Sales Manager, remarked.
Suessmith also added:
With the release of the Gemini 335Le incorporating Ethernet connectivity, Orbbec becomes the first in the industry to offer such comprehensive interface options. The versatility and flexibility provided by the Gemini 330 Series enables our customers to incorporate high-quality depth sensing into all of their robot designs, regardless of which interface they prefer to use.
Moreover, to match the firm’s technology innovations, Orbbec entered a partnership with robot manufacturer Hiwonder at CES 2025. This partnership will see Orbbec align with a robotic industry leader with over 40 technical patents.
Moreover, the partnership will likely assist Orbbec in its mission of robot adoption in business environments, with Hiwonder already deploying innovative robotic solutions in roughly 2,000 STEAM educational settings.
The Hiwonder partnership also marks Orbbec’s desire to enter the educational robotics industry in 2025, which will help drive students’ innovation and understanding of the emerging marketplace.
Amit Banerjee, Head of Platform and Partnerships at Orbbec, said:
Our partnership with Hiwonder brings 3D vision and AI into the classroom with easy-to-use kits. We have a shared goal to make the robotics technology accessible to educators, students and developers for hands-on learning experiences.
Robotics, physical AI, and all its derivatives are still emerging; however, in select industries, the technology already has a respected reputation for improving operations, and as technologies and partnerships continue to emerge, the future of such technology is a rocket ship waiting to take off.
