36Kr Exclusive | SenseTime's Guo Xiang Invests in a Consumer-Grade Spatial Camera Company to Collect Real-World Data for Embodied AI
Zhuma Innovation, a consumer spatial camera company, has secured tens of millions in an Angel+ funding round led by SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, with participation from CDH VGC and Fengrui Capital. The company aims to create a new category of AI hardware, the spatial camera, which functions as both a 3D content creation tool and an entry point for real-world 3D data crucial for embodied AI and world models. Their product, Pebble, uses technologies like 3D Gaussian Splatting and multi-sensor fusion to capture the 3D world, addressing the growing demand for realistic data in training robots and AI models. AI
IMPACT This funding could accelerate the development of new hardware for collecting real-world 3D data, crucial for advancing embodied AI and world models.