Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.62
May 06, 2022
…latest version of the open-source Robot Operating System. Daimler Truck has joined previously announced strategic investors, including Toyota Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, Airbus Ventures, Continental AG, ZF, AGCO, and HELLA Ventures. Robotics 24/7 has tracked more than $2.6 billion in autonomous vehicle transactions to date in 2022. The global market for self-driving trucks alone could surpass $2.5 billion by 2028, according to Global Market Insights Inc.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.48
September 22, 2021
…which it unveiled an autonomous ride-hailing vehicle), Uber, and Volvo. Aurora is testing its vehicles in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Northern Texas. It has agreed to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and will be valued at $1 billion. “This new commercial pilot collaboration demonstrates the excellent progress that PACCAR and Aurora are making in our strategic alliance,” added Rich. FedEx loads autonomously hit the road Starting today, PACCAR’s trucks configured with the Aurora autonomous Driver will haul FedEx loads between Dallas and Houston, a 500-mile round trip, along the I-45 corridor.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.58
May 01, 2019
…can react.” While testing its large animal detection system, Volvo discovered the program didn’t know how to deal with kangaroos (“Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos,” The Guardian, June 2017). A fully autonomous Level 5 vehicle, in Zarola’s view, is still in the far future. “We still have some way to go in terms of data collection to improve sensor fusion and using AI to recognize objects,” he says. Retrofitted IoT For many manufacturers, replacing legacy machines with a new batch of costly connected devices is not practical. Therefore, the solution rests with retrofitting—placing sensors on old…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.86
July 24, 2023
…In addition, Aurora has successfully partnered with vehicle makers Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, and Toyota, as well as hardware-as-a-service provider Continental, Urmson said. He cited FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, Schneider, and Hirschbach are pilot customers. The company reached “feature complete” status in April, and Urmson said he expects it to reach “Aurora Driver Ready” by the end of 2023. That milestone will include validating software, hardening software, and proving that autonomous trucks can safely haul freight between Dallas and Houston without human drivers. Aurora plans to have a full prototype of its FirstLidar system on a chip for long-range sensing at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.77
May 19, 2022
…partners across the transportation ecosystem, including FedEx and PACCAR, Volvo Trucks, Uber Freight, Toyota, U.S. Xpress, Werner, and Covenant. Its announcement came after a week of trucking partnerships. Aurora marks autonomous truck momentum In March 2022, Aurora's next-generation autonomous trucks – based on the new Peterbilt 579 – began to transport FedEx shipments between Aurora’s new terminals in Fort Worth and El Paso. Aurora is making the 600-mi. trip on a weekly basis with safety drivers on board and said it expects to increase the frequency of trips in the coming months. In addition, Aurora continues to move shipments for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.42
October 06, 2024
…logging companies, has deployed Teleo’s Supervised Autonomy on a Volvo L350F wheel loader for operations. This is the world’s first logging yard with autonomous operations. The company is conducting autonomous tramming, or hauling of materials from one point to another, of logs from their arrival point to a processing yard. Pick-up and drop-off activities are remote operated. Fin-Terpuu’s active logging sites are complex and harsh environments, with around-the-clock operations happening in snow and cold weather, and often complete darkness as the Finland site experiences three months with no sunlight. The company chose Teleo’s offering as a way to overcome an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.47
May 11, 2022
…10 hours over 1,530 km (951 mi.). DHL and Volvo Autonomous Solutions are developing hub-to-hub autonomous freight hauling. The third force is the acceleration of e-commerce demand around the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Dorabot deployments in DHL eCommerce Solutions is a winning example of the effective collaboration between the business unit and the DHL Innovation Center,” said Ben Perlson, robotics and automation lead at DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation. Last year, DHL eCommerce Solutions’ sister division DHL Express announced the deployment of its first Dorabot AI-powered robotic sortation systems at its service centers in Singapore, South Korea, and Miami. “We started…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.32
April 27, 2021
…Honda China collaborating on testing in China, Aurora and Volvo partnering on autonomous trucks, and Siemens Digital Industries Software working with the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Race to autonomous driving is a marathon, not a sprint Toyota has said that it plans to offer next-generation mobility services rather than fully autonomous vehicles. Both Woven Planet and Lyft acknowledged that the quest for SAE Level 5 autonomy will still take time, money, and effort. “This acquisition significantly accelerates our ability to bring technology solutions forward with an influx of exceptional engineers and leading-edge technology,” said George Kellerman, head of investments…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.21
May 01, 2019
…of injury.” Stay in the Safe Zone Last October, Volvo announced it will use NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Xavier platform for its new core computer for assisted driving that will go into every next-generation Volvo. At CES 2019, suppliers Continental and ZF announced their production plans for Level 2+ systems built on NVIDIA DRIVE, with production starting as early as 2020. Mercedes-Benz also announced that its next-generation centralized computing architecture for AI in the cockpit and AI for self-driving will use NVIDIA DRIVE technology. The A8 Highway in Germany as seen in rFpro simulation software, running a test in a scenario…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.00
April 19, 2021
…year, will be the central brain of autonomous vehicles. Volvo Cars said it will use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin in its next-generation XC90 vehicles. NVIDIA claimed that DRIVE Atlan will be a “data center on wheels” and be able to perform more than 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS). “Atlan will be a technical marvel – fusing all of NVIDIA’s technologies in AI, auto, robotics, safety, and BlueField secure data centers,” Huang said. Huang also announced the eighth generation of NVIDIA's Hyperion car platform, which includes reference sensors, central computers, 3D ground-truth data recorders, networking, and related software. Just as Omniverse…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.99
October 30, 2021
…trucks. Aurora has partnered with companies including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and PACCAR. Last year, it acquired Uber Advanced Technology Group (ATG), and It recently announced that it will merge with special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Reinvent Technology Partners Y and be publicly traded starting Nov. 4. Aurora marks milestones to commercialization Aurora said it is moving quickly toward the commercial launch of Aurora Horizon in late 2023, and the release of Aurora Driver Beta marks an important milestone. It demonstrates Aurora’s autonomous driving capabilities, confirms its driver-as-a-service business model, is the result of years of hard work, and is the foundation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.91
December 14, 2021
…Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures. Other previously announced investors included Volvo Group Venture Capital, Toyota Ventures, and HELLA Ventures. “We have a lot of strategic investors, predicated on technology partnerships,” said Becker. “All of these relationships have been built up over quite some time.” “Based on the Apex.OS, we can offer our customers an additional ZF Middleware option,” said Nico Hartmann, head of the ZF Global Software Center. “This solution is certified to the highest standards of functional safety for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Thus, we offer our customers an alternative to Autosar Adaptive.” In addition, Apex.AI will add two…
