Hesai Group has launched Kosmo, a 3D world data engine that converts real environments into simulation-ready scenes for robot training. It pairs Kosmo One, which Hesai calls the "world's first 8K ultra HD AI spatial camera," with the Kosmo World cloud platform. At the launch event, Hesai also announced partnerships with embodied AI companies Galbot and Dexmal.
Kosmo One integrates lidar, a one-inch imaging sensor and an inertial measurement unit, with data synchronized at the microsecond level. Hesai says 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction delivers millimeter-level geometric accuracy. The 8K figure is the camera's maximum capture resolution, and exported files top out at 6K. One operator can scan a typical 100-square-meter indoor space in about 15 minutes. Kosmo World then processes the data at up to roughly five times the speed of comparable 3DGS products, according to the company.
From a single reconstruction, Kosmo World produces 3DGS, mesh and depth data. Generative AI fills unscanned areas, and semantic segmentation identifies individual objects. Views can be adapted to a specific robot's camera. The platform integrates with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Unreal Engine, RenderMan and Houdini.
Hesai's test case was a Dairy Queen store. Building a 3D training environment there previously took about 300 hours of manual modeling by a professional team. Scanning and reconstruction with Kosmo took 15 minutes. The Sharpa robot's task success rate reached 99 percent, its failure rate fell to one-tenth of the earlier level, and it began operating in the store. Hesai also says one captured space can yield more than 10,000 training trajectories, or more than 100 times as much training data for the same cost.
For automation engineers, a faster way to digitize a work area could shorten the simulation setup that precedes deploying a robotic cell. Metrology and Quality News points out that Kosmo is positioned as a spatial data and robot-training platform, not a dimensional inspection system. A realistic reconstruction does not by itself show that a part conforms to its drawing, the publication notes.
Hesai also sees uses in film. It says a 10,000-square-meter European streetscape that would take two months to build as a physical set can be scanned, reconstructed and edited in one week, at savings of up to 80 percent. Separately, the company's robotic actuation modules passed 10,000 cumulative deliveries by the end of the second quarter of 2026, and Hesai expects shipments to reach six figures in 2027.
