Chinese LiDAR solutions company Hesai Technology announced that it has joined the Nvidia Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, the first American National Standards Institute (ANSI) National Accreditation Board’s (ANAB) accredited inspection lab for AI-driven physical systems. As a member, the company said that it will be required to evaluate and validate its LiDAR platforms within this unified framework for functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI compliance.
Shanghai-based Hesai pointed out that LiDAR is a foundational sensing technology in the safety architecture of autonomous systems. By delivering precise 3D perception of the surrounding environment, lidar enables autonomous systems to detect objects, understand road conditions, and respond to potential hazards in real time.
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The company said that “Nvidia Halos is a comprehensive full‑stack safety system for physical AI that unifies safety elements across vehicle and robotics architectures and their underlying AI models. It combines hardware and software components, tools, models, and design principles to safeguard AI‑based, end‑to‑end autonomous vehicle and robotics stacks.”
Hesai’s co‑founder and CEO, David Li, said in a statement: “Autonomous systems will only achieve broad adoption if they meet the highest standards of safety and reliability. As autonomous vehicles and intelligent machines move towards large‑scale deployment, safety becomes the defining requirement for the entire system.”
David Li explained further: “Our work with Nvidia began several years ago with the integration of Hesai’s LiDAR with Nvidia’s autonomous computing platforms. Lidar is often the primary sensor responsible for detecting hazards in the most critical situations on the road. Joining the Nvidia Halos ecosystem allows us to further strengthen the safety architecture required to bring trusted autonomous technology into everyday use.”
Hesai confirmed that it has so far delivered more than 2 million LiDAR systems to global automakers, empowering their advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles, as well as robotics applications across a growing number of commercial platforms. “With the largest number of LiDAR units deployed in the industry, Hesai is helping define the safety architecture for next-generation autonomous systems and supporting some of the world’s most advanced autonomous vehicle development programmes,” the company added.
