Author: Olsi

The Chinese lidar specialist is expanding beyond automotive sensors with a system designed to turn physical environments into detailed 3D data — a potentially important step toward robots that can perform more useful work. Robots can be impressive in a carefully controlled demonstration. Getting them to perform reliably in an unfamiliar room, factory or busy public space is a much harder problem. One obstacle is the quality of the information they use to understand their surroundings. Chinese technology company Hesai Group is targeting that challenge with Kosmo, a new spatial-mapping system announced on October 14. The platform combines a handheld…

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