HUMANOID ROBOT
Where it fits in the robot
Sunny’s robot portfolio includes time-of-flight and stereo cameras alongside machine-vision optics.
What the evidence establishes
Robotics productsSunny lists robot camera modules and optics. Module integration and optical manufacturing are supported, but named humanoid shipments are not.
A documented robotics component or industrial robot application. Humanoid adoption is not established by the cited source.
| Component role | Robot camera modules & machine-vision lenses |
|---|---|
| Evidence | Sunny lists robot camera modules and optics. Module integration and optical manufacturing are supported, but named humanoid shipments are not. |
| Primary source | Sunny Optical — supporting disclosure Company or official disclosure; vendor claims are attributed to their source. |
| Checked | . This is the research review date, not the source publication or quote time. |
Keep in perspective
Smartphone and automotive optics also drive the business. Robot product availability does not establish specific shipments.
Diversified business exposure. This describes the breadth or role of the business; it is not an investment rating. A robotics product or development announcement does not by itself establish material humanoid revenue, market share, or future returns.
Connections to the assembly
These links explain the technology relationship. The model is illustrative and does not represent an actual manufacturer’s bill of materials.
Lens barrel & mount
The mechanical mount keeps the optics aligned with the sensor and defines the camera’s packaging.
Scope of the company links: Optical and camera-module integration; these companies are not all independent lens-barrel manufacturers.
Optical lens stack
Multiple lens elements focus incoming light. Complete camera suppliers integrate the optics with the sensor.
Scope of the company links: Sunny manufactures imaging optics as well as camera modules. Camera integrators and laser illumination suppliers are kept separate.
SMART GLASSES
Where it fits in smart glasses
Smart-glasses imaging modules, XR vision modules and AR optical engines (2025 annual results, Mar 30, 2026; the "XR and other" segment, which also holds pan-IoT, grew 20.8%); customers unnamed.
What the evidence establishes
Smart-glasses evidenceDisclosed: Sunny’s 2025 annual results describe smart-glasses imaging modules, XR vision modules and AR optical engines; the "XR and other" segment grew 20.8%.
An explicit smart-glasses product, design-in, supply role, program, application page or partnership, including wrist or ring input sold with glasses. For a device maker, it means the company’s own glasses, not a supplier relationship. This does not establish revenue, market share, volumes or future sourcing.
| Component role | Smart-glasses imaging modules and AR optical engines |
|---|---|
| Evidence | Disclosed: Sunny’s 2025 annual results describe smart-glasses imaging modules, XR vision modules and AR optical engines; the "XR and other" segment grew 20.8%. |
| How we know | Disclosed The company’s own filing, release, annual report, product page or investor record describes the smart-glasses role. Where customers are unnamed, the listing says so. |
| Primary source | Sunny Optical — supporting disclosure Company or official disclosure; vendor claims are attributed to their source. |
| Checked | . This is the research review date, not the source publication or quote time. |
Keep in perspective
Customers are unnamed, and the "XR and other" segment also includes pan-IoT products. Smartphone and automotive optics drive most of the business.
Diversified business exposure. This describes the breadth or role of the business; it is not an investment rating. A smart-glasses product, design-in or partnership does not by itself establish material glasses revenue, market share, or future returns.
Connections to the assembly
These links explain the technology relationship. The model is illustrative and does not represent an actual manufacturer’s bill of materials.
Fly-eye homogenizer
Two paired microlens arrays scramble the LED output into uniform rectangular light, so the image has even brightness and color.
Scope of the company links: Optical-engine makers integrate the microlens arrays: Sunny reports AR optical engines (2025 annual results). No standalone microlens-array supplier is verified. Goertek’s engine work sits in Goertek Optical (a 38.34% associate), so Goertek is not mapped.
Polarizing beam splitter
A coated cube reflects one polarization onto the panel. Switched-on pixels rotate the returning light’s polarization, so only image light passes through toward the lens.
Scope of the company links: Engine integration (Sunny AR optical engines). This is not a claim of standalone PBS-cube or wave-plate supply.
Projection lens & housing
A short lens group collimates the image, so each pixel becomes a ray angle the waveguide can carry. The housing keeps the optics aligned; any shift moves the image.
Scope of the company links: Projection optics ship inside a light engine: Sunny reports AR optical engines, and Himax sells a complete 0.34 cc LCoS projector module (its collimator was co-developed with Giga-Image Technology, not mapped). Standalone lens-element supply is not established.
Lens stack & barrel
A fixed-focus, multi-element wide-angle lens focuses the scene through an IR-cut filter onto the sensor.
Scope of the company links: Camera-module makers with disclosed smart-glasses imaging work: Sunny (smart-glasses imaging modules, 2025 annual results) and AAC (camera solutions in mass production for unnamed glasses clients, CES 2025). Lens-element makers (Largan, Genius) were excluded for lack of glasses evidence.
Camera flex & connector
A MIPI CSI flex carries image data to the logic board, looping through the hinge area. iFixit notes delicate camera ribbons in the Oakley Meta HSTN hinge.
Scope of the company links: Camera-module makers integrate the flex and connector; standalone flexible-circuit and connector suppliers are not identified.
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