Overview
- Hesai unveiled Kosmo as a compact lidar-and-camera mapping device that the company says will let developers collect three-dimensional spatial data more efficiently for robot AI.
- The firm said it has signed agreements with Chinese robotics companies to deploy Kosmo but declined to give revenue forecasts for the product.
- Hesai is also building robot actuators that it says make up a large share of a robot’s material cost and are already fitted in the Sharpa Wave robotic hand.
- Hesai reported that a Sharpa Wave unit served ice cream autonomously at a Dairy Queen in Shanghai and that Kosmo mapping helped the robot reach a 99% task success rate.
- Hesai’s push builds on its role as a major automotive lidar supplier that drove unit costs below $200 and uses Sharpa Robotics and recent funding of more than 4.5 billion yuan as testbeds to move into the robotics supply chain.