Beijing, August 19, 2026 β On the opening day of the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, Orbbec held its “Multi-Dimensional Perception” new product launch event, marking the first full showcase of its Robot-Free Data Collection Hardware Platform and the official debut of the new Physis series robotics vision cameras.
The launches mark an important step in Orbbec’s expansion, built on more than a decade of expertise in robotics and AI vision, into two foundational infrastructure layers for physical AI. On the data side, the multimodal Robot-Free Data Collection Hardware Platform provides a hardware foundation for physical AI data collection, enabling high-quality real-world interaction data to flow more efficiently into model training and robot validation. On the perception side, the Physis series equips embodied AI systems with more human-like visual perception.
## Physis 257g: Human-IPD RGB Stereo Vision
The Physis 257g features Orbbec’s proprietary natural-imaging system. Its 63 mm stereo baseline closely matches the interpupillary distance of human eyes, while a low-distortion H120 x V90 degree field of view and dual real-time 1920 x 1200 at 60 fps color streams deliver broad visual coverage. A global shutter and onboard ISP provide consistent color and texture across the stereo pair.
Powered by the Orbbec SDK and a dedicated AI depth engine, the camera offers a depth sensing range from 0.1 m to beyond 10 m, with typical accuracy of 1.6% at 2 m. An integrated high-performance IMU provides multimodal support for robot visual localization.
Designed for demanding operating environments, the Physis 257g uses a high-speed GMSL2 interface, carries an IP67 rating, and operates across a wide temperature range from -30 to 65 degrees Celsius. It is built to withstand the shocks and impacts associated with walking, obstacle traversal, running, and jumping. Combined with a low-latency hardware architecture, rich metadata, and globally unified timestamps, it provides an out-of-the-box solution for multi-camera synchronization and multimodal fusion.
## Physis 157g: Compact Monocular Companion
The Physis 157g uses the same imaging specifications, hardware architecture, synchronization framework, and software design as the 257g, delivering high-quality color streams across the same wide field of view. A robot can use the 257g for core spatial, color, and texture perception, while adding the more compact 157g to expand multi-view coverage, enabling multiple cameras to share a common time base and imaging reference.
## Gemini 338Le and 338Lg: Industrial-Grade Stereo 3D Cameras
Orbbec also introduced the new Gemini 338Le and Gemini 338Lg stereo 3D cameras. Both offer enhanced resistance to ambient-light interference. The Gemini 338Le uses an industrial-grade Gigabit Ethernet interface with PoE support, while the Gemini 338Lg provides a high-speed GMSL2/FAKRA connection, addressing differentiated integration requirements in demanding industrial and logistics environments.
## Robot-Free Data Collection Hardware Platform
WRC 2026 marks the first complete showcase of Orbbec’s Robot-Free Data Collection Hardware Platform since its launch in July. The lineup brings together four product forms: EGO for first-person vision capture, UMI for handheld manipulation capture, WristCam for wrist-level near-field interaction capture, and Hub for central connection, forming a data collection matrix that covers the critical viewpoints of real-world interaction.
In production-line testing, Orbbec data collection devices recorded continuously for more than 37 hours at 1600 x 1200 at 30 fps using H.264, with zero dropped frames across RGB and IMU streams and more than 100 million frames captured in total. Variation in camera-to-IMU frame intervals was kept within 30 microseconds, while hardware-level multi-camera synchronization error is below 1 ms and factory calibration error is below 0.3 pixels.
## Strategic Partnerships
Orbbec and SmartSens deepened their strategic partnership to combine Orbbec’s proprietary depth engine chips and full-stack 3D vision technologies with SmartSens’ machine vision CIS technologies. D-Robotics is exhibiting at Orbbec’s main booth (B313), as the two companies continue to deepen their “eye-brain synergy” collaboration on the integration of robotics vision and edge computing.
Orbbec products are also featured at the Robbyant booth (C111) and the Guangdong Embodied Intelligence Robotics Innovation Center booth (C132). Dr. Howard Huang, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Orbbec, will join leading industry guests at the WRC main forum for a discussion on how far world models are from delivering real-world value for humanity.
“Physis is purpose-built for humanoid robots, collaborative robot arms, and other embodied AI applications that require continuous, long-duration operation,” said an Orbbec product lead. “From multimodal perception in a single camera to fused perception across multi-camera systems, Physis is designed for the next stage of embodied AI: moving from ‘simply seeing’ to ‘seeing comprehensively, seeing accurately, and operating reliably.'”
WRC 2026 runs through August 23 in Beijing.
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