AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

Pony.ai receives permit for passenger transport in Guangzhou

Pony.ai received a permit for fully driverless autonomous vehicle passenger transport in Guangzhou, China. In an 803 square kilometer (310 square mile) area in Guangzhou’s Nansha District, riders will have the opportunity to enjoy safe, convenient and comfortable fully driverless robotaxi services by placing orders through the PonyPilot+ app to locations such as high-speed rail stations, subway stops, parks, and business and residential districts. www.pony.ai

Haomo.ai releases DriveGPT

Chinese autonomous driving company Haomo.AI Technology launched its large model DriveGPT. It adopts a generative pre-training Transformer, while the input is text sequence after perceptual fusion and the output is text sequence of the autopilot scene. The autopilot scene is tokenized to form a “Drive Language” for the vehicle to generate an action decision. www.chinadaily.com.cn

Bosch and Plus collaborate

Bosch and Plus are collaborating to make software-defined commercial trucks a reality. Plus is offering its PlusDrive solution with the integrated steering system from Bosch featuring hardware and software to deliver driver assistance and partially automated features to commercial vehicles. The announcement was made at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Anaheim, California. www.bosch.com

Porsche and Mobileye launch SuperVision collaboration

Mobileye has announced its strategic collaboration with Porsche to provide Mobileye’s SuperVision™ premium advanced driver assistance systems in future Porsche production models. This new effort builds on the strategy of advancing autonomy through evolution. www.mobileye.com

Seoul Robotics unveils intersection traffic solution

Seoul Robotics has announced a comprehensive end-to-end intersection traffic solution that transforms raw 3D data into actionable insights for traffic controllers. The new solution adds a layer of intelligence to 3D perception that goes beyond the capabilities of legacy traffic management systems by interpreting real-time data and driving critical roadway decisions that improve mobility and ensure pedestrian safety.

The solution collects and analyzes data through SENSR-I, the infrastructure-based version of Seoul Robotics’ patented 3D perception platform, SENSR™. It uses deep learning AI to simultaneously track, detect, and identify vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians to create a digital twin of the environment. This provides traffic controllers insights for real-time decisionmaking to enable cities to enhance mobility and safety by accurately identifying and addressing road risks. www.seoulrobotics.org

Vimaan launches new StorTRACK

Vimaan has announced the all new StorTRACK, the next generation in cycle counting technology that addresses the ongoing challenge of warehouse inventory accuracy. It conducts automated scanning of warehouse shelves and uses advanced machine learning to read labels, count inventory, reconcile against a WMS, and generate a visual and digital reconstruction of the warehouse, thus enabling 100% inventory accuracy.vimaan.ai

Saudi Arabia to benefit from new satellite IoT services

iot squared, an Internet of things (IoT) technology company and a joint venture between Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and stc Group (stc), has signed a MoU with OQ Technology. Through this partnership, OQ Technology will provide satellite IoT connectivity services and products to iot squared and support the technical development of its products and services. www.oqtec.space