Gasgoo Munich- Hesai Technology took center stage at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing from August 19 to 23, showcasing a suite of products and technological breakthroughs designed for robots and physical AI.
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On the product front, Hesai unveiled "Picasso" — the world's first 6D all-color LiDAR hypersensitive chip platform. By integrating color sensing and Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging onto a single chip, the platform achieves native pixel-level alignment of RGB and depth data. This allows it to simultaneously capture an object's position, shape, and color, directly generating high-quality colored point clouds.
Unlike traditional multi-sensor fusion setups, "Picasso" minimizes information deviation to deliver a steady stream of native, high-quality RGB-D data — offering richer representations of the real world for world models and physical AI. The ETX, a 6D all-color LiDAR powered by this platform, also made its debut. It boasts a maximum detection range of 600 meters, supports up to 4,320 scan lines, and leads the industry in small target recognition.
In the realm of spatial intelligence, Hesai presented its Kosmo platform. Touted as the world's first AI spatial camera, Kosmo fuses LiDAR, high-definition imaging systems, and advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstruction technology. The system efficiently performs 3D reconstruction of real-world scenes, supplying high-quality three-dimensional data for training embodied intelligence and building world models.
For robot perception hardware, Hesai's compact JT128 LiDAR has emerged as the go-to choice for leading embodied intelligence companies. Over 50 firms — including Unitree, Ant Lingbo, Honor Robot, Galbot, Xinghaitu, and Force Prime — are accelerating the adoption of the JT128.
Built on a fourth-generation proprietary chip architecture, the device features the industry's widest ultra-hemispherical field of view at 360°×189°. Its miniature design allows for discreet, easy installation, providing robots with zero-blind-spot 3D perception.
On the show floor, Unitree's G1 Pro humanoid robot — the same model featured in the Spring Festival Gala — and the Vbot super robot dog "Da Tou" were on display, both equipped with Hesai LiDAR.
Hesai has built an infrastructure platform for robots and physical AI centered on LiDAR, the Kosmo spatial intelligence platform, and robot power modules. It stands as the only company in the industry to achieve commercial deployment across the full chain of "perception-understanding-execution." By the end of the second quarter of 2026, Hesai had delivered more than 10,000 power modules, with its product lineup expanding from dexterous hand modules to full-body joint modules.
