Strategic acquisition of a magnetic sensor firm completes Maxic’s intelligent sensor product portfolio

■   Optical Sensors — the “Intelligent Eyes” of Smart Terminals

Ambient light sensors provide the fundamental visual support for smart terminals. By continuously monitoring changes in ambient illumination, they ensure clear and stable visual performance even under challenging lighting conditions such as backlighting or low light. In addition, sensors facilitate automatic day/night mode switching, significantly enhancing environmental adaptability and visual reliability in real scenarios. These capabilities make them well suited for a wide range of applications, including consumer electronics, smart glasses, and industrial control systems.

1D/3D ToF sensors empower smart terminals with precise spatial perception. Through high-accuracy laser ranging and real-time 3D modeling, sensors enable devices to accurately perceive their surroundings, interact intelligently, and act autonomously. In navigation scenarios, sensors support real-time 3D mapping, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and optimal path planning. During operation, sensors provide precise object localization to assist robotic arms with stable grasping. In human–machine interaction, sensors enable gesture recognition and human posture tracking. Serving as a critical foundation for autonomous navigation, safe obstacle avoidance, and complex task execution, ToF sensors are widely applicable in robotics, smart wearables, and consumer electronics.

Multimodal vision sensors act as a form of “sensitive skin” and environmental intuition for smart terminals. By integrating high-sensitivity vision, tactile, and force-sensing capabilities, sensors enable accurate recognition of object shape and texture while simultaneously detecting contact pressure and force distribution. This allows devices to adaptively adjust applied force when handling fragile objects or performing precision assembly, achieving millimeter-level fine-grained operations and empowering advanced applications in industrial automation and intelligent equipment.

Magnetic sensors function as the precision control hub of dexterous hands and joints. By providing real-time position and angle feedback with arcsecond-level accuracy, sensors enable high-precision, low-jitter, and highly stable full-joint motion control. At the same time, sensors can detect minute angular deformations, and combined with algorithms, realize force and torque sensing, allowing devices to accurately perceive operational force and object characteristics and to perform adaptive motion adjustments. In addition, magnetic sensors deliver critical data for dynamic balance, posture adjustment, and internal motor safety monitoring, serving as a core element in ensuring motion stability and operational reliability of intelligent terminals.

Following the acquisition, Maxic will rapidly complete its magnetic sensing product portfolio, covering key categories such as Hall switches, linear Hall sensors, joint-position magnetic encoders, tactile sensors, and current sensors. Now, Maxic has successfully established a comprehensive sensing solution spanning environmental sensing + multimodal fusion sensing + motion sensing, breaking scenario boundaries and enabling cross-scenario reuse across electric vehicles, industrial automation, smart glasses, energy storage safety monitoring, and consumer electronics. It also covers a wide range of industrial and consumer intelligent equipment, including robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn-mowing robots, pool robots, and humanoid robots.

Moving forward, Maxic will continue to drive technical innovation, deepening its expertise and product evolution in sensing technology to provide global customers with smarter, more precise, agile, and reliable one-stop sensing solutions.