Lotus Robotics, the self-driving technology unit of Lotus, is partnering with CaoCao Mobility, the ride-hailing unit strategically invested in by Geely Holding that will accelerate the deployment of its autonomous driving solutions globally. Together, the brands have launched China’s first fully comprehensive autonomous driving system, powered by Lotus Robotics. This... Read more →
Nissan Motor showcased its latest autonomous-drive (AD) technology in Yokohama’s Minato Mirai area. For the first time in Japan, a test vehicle with no driver in the car has navigated a public road in a complex urban environment. Nissan has developed this proprietary technology for a mobility service it plans... Read more →
The University of Michigan is fusing its longstanding leadership in transportation safety with its distinct expertise in testing connected and automated vehicle technologies. U-M’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) is expanding to include the Mcity public/private partnership and test facility. Henry Liu, Mcity’s director since 2022, will lead the expanded UMTRI.... Read more →
Pony AI has launched paid robotaxi services from multiple locations in Guangzhou’s city center to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Guangzhou South Railway Station. Pony.ai is the first and so-far only company approved to provide robotaxi services on these high-demand routes. Riders can book a Pony.ai vehicle using the PonyPilot... Read more →
Stellantis N.V. unveiled STLA AutoDrive 1.0, the company’s first in-house-developed automated driving system, delivering hands-free and fyes-off (SAE Level 3) functionality. STLA AutoDrive is a key pillar of Stellantis’ technology strategy, alongside STLA Brain and STLA Smart Cockpit, advancing vehicle intelligence, automation and user experience. STLA AutoDrive enables automated driving... Read more →
Kodiak Robotics, Inc., an autonomous truck developer, and Atlas Energy Solutions announced that Atlas has completed the delivery of 100 loads of proppant with its two RoboTrucks, semi-trucks equipped with the Kodiak Driver, Kodiak’s self-driving system. This milestone marks the first time a customer has taken ownership of a RoboTruck... Read more →
Pony AI is the first company in China to receive approval for robotruck platooning tests on cross-provincial highways connecting Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province, marking a major milestone in the company’s pursuit of large-scale commercialization of autonomous trucking. This approval enables Pony.ai to operate robotrucks in a “1+N” platoon, with... Read more →
Aeva, a developer of next-generation sensing and perception systems, and Torc, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck and a pioneer in commercializing self-driving vehicle technology, are expanding their collaboration to advance the development of a new safety architecture for truck applications, enabling autonomous trucks to make safer, more intelligent decisions.... Read more →
onsemi and tier-one automotive supplier DENSO are strengthening their long-term relationship to support the procurement of autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) technologies. For more than 10 years, onsemi has been supplying DENSO with the latest intelligent automotive sensors to enhance ADAS and AD performance. These semiconductors... Read more →
Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) and DHL Supply Chain have launched autonomous operations in the United States. The operations will be enabled by the purpose-built, production-ready Volvo VNL Autonomous which is powered by the Aurora Driver. The start of operations marks a critical phase in validating the full ecosystem required for... Read more →
General Motors plans to realign its autonomous driving strategy and prioritize development of advanced driver assistance systems on a path to fully autonomous personal vehicles. GM will build on the progress of Super Cruise, the company’s hands-off, eyes-on driving feature, now offered on more than 20 GM vehicle models and... Read more →
The BMW Group is systematically advancing the digitalisation and automation of its production processes within the BMW iFACTORY framework. Since 2022, the company has been testing Automated Driving In-Plant (AFW) for new vehicles at its largest European plant in Dingolfing. Following successful CE certification, the pilot project is now transitioning... Read more →
The automotive semiconductor market is expecting a significant CAGR of 11% between 2023 and 2029 to almost $100 billion at the end of the period. Semiconductor device value per car: about $1000 in 2029. The conventional automotive supply chain needs to thoroughly examine its position and transform it to remain... Read more →
MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, announced the general availability (GA) launch of the MIPS P8700 Series RISC-V Processor. Designed to meet the low-latency, highly intensive data movement demands of the most advanced automotive applications such as ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), the P8700 delivers industry-leading... Read more →
Lyft and Mobileye announced plans for an alliance that aims to facilitate the widespread commercialization of autonomous vehicles’ services by industry-leading fleet operators. Using the latest advancements in AI for autonomy, Mobileye provides AV technology to an ecosystem of purpose-built vehicle manufacturers, which integrate Mobileye’s AV technology in AV-ready vehicles... Read more →
DENSO and Quadric signed a development license agreement for a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which is a semiconductor specialized for the arithmetic processing of AI. Through the agreement, DENSO will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU, and the two companies will co-develop intellectual property (NPU) for an... Read more →
Oxa, a developer of autonomous vehicle technology, announced that its autonomous Ford E-Transit van and minibus are now driving on UK and US roads, powered by Oxa Driver software. This marks a significant leap forward in the commercialization of self-driving technology. The Ford E-Transit, Europe’s best-selling large electric van, now... Read more →
Waymo closed an oversubscribed investment round of $5.6 billion, led by Alphabet, with continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price. Waymo said it will use this latest investment to welcome more riders into the Waymo One ride-hailing service in San Francisco,... Read more →
The latest version of Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free highway driving software can smoothly and seamlessly initiate a hands-free lane change to pass slower moving traffic and maintain hands-free driving at the driver’s preferred speed. This is possible because of an all-new BlueCruise 1.5 feature, Automatic Lane Change, developed by the Ford... Read more →
As Mcity begins welcoming researchers in autonomous and connected vehicle technologies from around the US to be remote users of its physical and virtual testing environment, its leadership is calling for federal standards for safety testing, arguing that the lack of clear goalposts is hampering development. Following two years of... Read more →
Hyundai Motor Company and Waymo entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership. In the first phase of this partnership, the companies will integrate Waymo’s sixth-generation fully autonomous technology—the Waymo Driver—into Hyundai’s all-electric IONIQ 5 SUV, which will be added to the Waymo One fleet over time. The IONIQ 5 vehicles destined... Read more →
Scania, and Australian company Fortescue, have agreed to develop and validate jointly a fully integrated autonomous road train solution. The global mining industry is transforming, and autonomous solutions are receiving more attention. The autonomous solution will be developed, tested and validated in partnership at Fortescue’s iron ore operations in Christmas... Read more →
Autobrains, a dveloper of AI-powered automotive solutions, unveiled Air2Road, a localization technology developed to enhance the capabilities of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving solutions. Powered by Autobrains’ Liquid AI Technology, Air2Road delivers precise, real-time vehicle localization for safe and efficient navigation, even in challenging conditions such as... Read more →
The ZF Group and Infineon Technologies AG have jointly developed and implemented AI algorithms for the development and control of vehicle software as part of the EEmotion project. The AI algorithms developed in the project, proven in a test vehicle, control and optimize all actuators during automated driving according to... Read more →
Mobileye has chosen to end the internal development of next-generation frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidars for use in autonomous and highly automated driving systems. The company said that it now believes that the availability of next-generation FMCW lidar is less essential to its roadmap for eyes-off systems. This decision... Read more →
The Nikkei reports that Isuzu Motors will jointly develop self-driving trucks capable of full automation under certain conditions with US vehicle software startup Applied Intuition, aiming to put the vehicles on Japanese highways from fiscal 2027. Isuzu President Shinsuke Minami told Nikkei that the automaker's collaboration with Applied Intuition has... Read more →
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, Bridgestone Americas, and Kodiak Robotics, a leading autonomous trucking company, marked a successful ongoing weekly delivery collaboration that has surpassed 50,000 autonomous long-haul trucking miles, incorporating Kodiak autonomous trucks to ship Bridgestone passenger car tires... Read more →
Zeekr and Mobileye plan to accelerate technology localization in China, integrate Mobileye technologies into the next-generation Zeekr models, and further their driving safety and automation there and in the global market. Zeekr is the global premium electric mobility technology brand from Geely Holding Group. Mobileye is a leading developer of... Read more →
Helm.ai, a provider of AI software for high-end ADAS, Level 4 autonomous driving, and robotics, launched a multi-sensor generative AI foundation model for simulating the entire autonomous vehicle stack. WorldGen-1 synthesizes highly realistic sensor and perception data across multiple modalities and perspectives simultaneously, extrapolates sensor data from one modality to... Read more →
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a document introducing an experimental legal regime in Moscow aimed at launching the country’s first driverless tram service for passenger travel. The initiative will allow for the introduction of Russia’s first self-driving tram. The document was prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development... Read more →
Atlas Energy Solutions—a leading proppant producer and proppant logistics provider, serving primarily the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico—and Kodiak Robotics have entered into an agreement whereby Kodiak will outfit new Atlas high-capacity trucks with Kodiak’s autonomous driving technology. The two companies have already completed their first driverless... Read more →
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Stanford Engineering—which have collaborated on research to make driving safer—announced a world first in driving research: autonomously drifting two cars in tandem. The experiments automate a motorsports maneuver called “drifting,” where a driver precisely controls a vehicle’s direction after breaking traction by spinning the rear... Read more →
Luminar, a leading global automotive technology company, launched Sentinel, its full-stack software suite, following five years of developments in software and AI systems. The Sentinel solution enables automakers to accelerate development of advanced safety and autonomous functionality on vehicles, and includes Proactive Safety, Perception, 3D Mapping and Localization, Simulation, and... Read more →
Modern, automated driver assistance systems require a large number of sensors in order to analyze the vehicle’s environment precisely and derive safe driving maneuvers. To further advance the development of these ADAS and AD solutions, ZF has developed the cloud-based and AI-enabled validation service ZF Annotate. Precise and reliable data... Read more →
The Yole Group forecasts that the global automotive LiDAR market will grow from US$538 million in 2023 to US$3,632 million by 2029, with a CAGR of 38% over this period. In 2022, the market was at a crucial junction. At the time, Yole Group identified significant issues between the PC... Read more →
Uber Freight and Aurora Innovation are launching Premier Autonomy, a new program providing early access to more than 1 billion of Aurora’s driverless miles to Uber Freight carriers through 2030. The program is the latest in their longstanding partnership to integrate and deploy autonomous trucks on the Uber Freight network... Read more →
BMW received approval for a combination of a Level 2 driving assistance system (the BMW Highway Assistant) and a Level 3 system in the form of the BMW Personal Pilot L3 in the same vehicle. The optional BMW Personal Pilot L3 is available exclusively in Germany priced at €6,000 (incl.... Read more →
With the introduction of an autonomous transport vehicle at its press plant, BMW Group Plant Regensburg is moving forward with digitalization and automation of its manufacturing processes, thereby taking a further step towards the digital and intelligently connected BMW iFACTORY. The driverless platform truck, with its electric drive train, will... Read more →
TIER IV, a developer of open-source software and autonomous driving technology, and Suzuki have entered into a capital and business alliance aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of autonomous driving technology to enhance regional mobility solutions. By combining TIER IV’s scalable software platforms with Suzuki’s expertise in manufacturing, the... Read more →
Nissan has commenced demonstrations of a prototype vehicle equipped with its in-house-developed, autonomous drive technologies—showcasing progress in its goal towards rolling out autonomous mobility services within fiscal year 2027. The Nissan LEAF prototype vehicle incorporates 14 cameras, 10 radars and 6 LIDAR sensors. It demonstrates Nissan’s progress in the field... Read more →
Moscow has begun testing an autonomous tram. In the initial phase, a driver is still present at the controls on the road. Within the depot, the tram operates completely autonomously. During the test phase, it will run on the 10th tram route without passengers. In the next phase, by the... Read more →
Hyundai Motor and autonomous driving software company Plus unveiled the first Level 4 autonomous Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell electric truck in the US at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo. A result of the collaboration between Hyundai Motor and Plus, Hyundai Motor’s XCIENT Fuel Cell truck, equipped with Plus... Read more →
DANNAR will reveal its latest Mobile Power Station (MPS) platform option at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo (ACT Expo), North America’s premier event for advanced vehicle technology. DANNAR will feature the Mobile Power Station (MPS) and the new Gen2 MPS 480 3-Phase option, which increases total energy export capacity, expands... Read more →
Daimler Truck unveiled the battery-electric autonomous Freightliner eCascadia technology demonstrator. The truck is based on a production battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia and is equipped with Torc’s autonomous driving software and the latest Level 4 sensor and compute technology. Torc Robotics is Daimler Truck’s independent subsidiary for autonomous virtual driver technology. While... Read more →
Geely and Foretellix, a leading provider of safety-driven Verification & Validation (V&V) solutions for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), announced a strategic partnership to enable safe large-scale deployment of AVs while reducing Geely’s R&D costs and increasing development efficiency. Foretellix and Geely will collaborate to integrate Foretellix’ Foretify platform with Geely’s development... Read more →
Hesai Technology released its new ultra-wide field of view (FOV), long-range lida: the ATX. With a longer detection range, higher resolution, and wider FOV, ATX empowers intelligent vehicles with excellent 3D perception. This new lidar utilizes Hesai’s advanced 4th-generation technology platform, with comprehensive upgrades to its laser transceiver module and... Read more →
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation unveiled the new design of their DAL-e Delivery robot. This robot, based on the delivery robot introduced in December 2022, is expected to improve delivery performance, particularly in complex settings, such as offices and shopping malls. Drawing from the insights gained from Hyundai Motor... Read more →
Following a pilot phase with road testing in Germany and the US, Volkswagen ADMT GmbH, part of Volkswagen AG, is announcing a cooperation agreement with the technology company Mobileye Global Inc. Mobileye will develop and supply software, hardware components and digital maps for the self-driving ID. Buzz AD. The main... Read more →
NVIDIA announced that leading companies across the transportation sector have adopted the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor centralized car computer to power their next-generation consumer and commercial fleets—from new energy vehicles and trucks to robotaxis, robobuses and last-mile autonomous delivery vehicles. DRIVE Thor is an in-vehicle computing platform architected for generative AI... Read more →
Southwest Research Institute has developed off-road autonomous driving tools with a focus on stealth for the military and agility for space and agriculture clients. The vision-based system pairs stereo cameras with novel algorithms, eliminating the need for lidar and active sensors. We reflected on the toughest machine vision challenges and... Read more →