Hesai Kosmo

Kosmo is a 3D world data engine from Hesai Technology, the Shanghai lidar maker listed on Nasdaq and the Hong Kong stock exchange. Hesai launched Kosmo on October 14, 2026 as two products, the Kosmo One capture device, which Hesai calls an AI spatial camera, and Kosmo World, a cloud platform that turns captures into 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes, meshes and depth data. Hesai positions Kosmo first as a source of real world 3D training data for robots and world models, and also as a capture tool for film, cultural tourism and mapping.

Hesai previewed Kosmo at its Technology Open Day on April 17, 2026, alongside the Picasso full color SPAD SoC and the next generation ETX automotive lidar. In July Hesai showed Kosmo at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, billing it as the world's first AI spatial camera and setting its launch for the second half of 2026. Hesai reported in its second quarter 2026 results that it delivered initial prototypes in July 2026 and secured orders from humanoid robotics companies including Galbot.

Kosmo One combines a lidar, an 8K imaging system with a one inch sensor and a high precision IMU, which Hesai says are synchronized to the microsecond so geometry, color, texture and device pose are recorded together. Hesai calls it the world's first AI spatial camera with an integrated 8K imaging system, a claim it dates to October 2026, and says its 3DGS reconstruction reaches millimeter level geometric accuracy. 8K is the maximum capture resolution, and exported files top out at 6K. The Kosmo product page lists a Class 1 lidar at 1535 nm with a 320 by 60 degree field of view, 569,000 points per second and 40 meters of range at 10 percent reflectivity, along with a weight of about 1,200 grams including the battery handle, 512 GB of internal storage and about 60 or 120 minutes of runtime from the standard and extended batteries. Hesai says one operator can scan a typical 100 square meter indoor room in about 15 minutes, with actual time depending on the space.

Reconstruction runs in Kosmo World on what Hesai calls Kosmo Spatial Core, which produces aligned 3DGS, mesh and depth outputs from a single reconstruction. For robot training Hesai assigns the splats to visual realism, the mesh to interactive objects and the depth to spatial distance. Generative AI fills areas the scan missed and reconstructs materials and textures, semantic segmentation labels individual objects so a scene can serve as sim ready data, and rendered views can be matched to a target robot's camera. Hesai says Kosmo World generates models up to about five times faster than comparable 3DGS products under similar hardware, data and quality conditions. In one deployment Hesai describes, a Dairy Queen store that would have taken about 300 hours to model by hand was scanned and reconstructed in about 15 minutes as a training environment for a Sharpa robot, which reached a 99 percent task success rate.

Hesai offers open access to raw capture data, including images, point clouds and IMU data, alongside 3DGS and mesh assets, and the product page lists .sog and .ply for splats, .obj for meshes, and .usd and .usdz. Hesai names NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Unreal Engine, RenderMan and Houdini as integrations. Pixar published the RenderMan tutorial Gaussian Splatting the Pixar Campus on October 5, 2026, with a downloadable Houdini Solaris project built on a Kosmo scan of the Pixar campus and a script that converts uncompressed splat PLY files into a native splat primitive, tested with Houdini 22.0.429 and the RenderMan 28 beta ahead of splat support shipping in RenderMan 28. Pixar's Dylan Sisson describes the same pipeline in A Brush with Reality, capturing the Pixar plaza and the studio's Lab with Kosmo and bringing the plaza into Solaris through USD, then reshaping the splats with standard Houdini point tools and a camera based falloff before rendering them in RenderMan.

At launch Hesai announced strategic partnerships with the embodied AI companies Galbot and Dexmal, and showed work with Amap, whose Flying Street View feature already carries Kosmo reconstructions of the Gravity Art Museum and PIFO Gallery. Hesai sells Kosmo two ways, as integrated hardware and software solutions and as a service producing real world spatial data at scale for world model and physical AI developers. Hesai has not published a price or a general shipping date, and the Kosmo site routes buyers to a contact sales form. Other capture hardware makers whose software turns lidar and imagery into Gaussian splats include XGRIDS, CHCNAV and Artec 3D.