Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 72.71
December 21, 2023
ABB is strengthening its long-standing partnership with Volvo Cars to supply more than 1,300 robots and functional packages to build the next generation of electric vehicles while helping the Swedish car manufacturer achieve its ambitious sustainability targets. This agreement includes functional packages covering various production tasks, from spot-welding, riveting, and dispensing to flow drilling and ultrasonic weld inspection. Each package is a ready-to-use, customer-proven combination of hardware, software, and services and will be implemented at Volvo Cars’ facilities in Torslanda, Sweden, and Daqing, China. Alongside the hardware and functional packages, ABB’s latest range of OmniCore robot controllers will help deliver…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.24
August 08, 2023
…computer-vision AI models and test systems integration for robots. Volvo Cars has transitioned its digital twin to be OpenUSD-based, using Omniverse to create immersive visualizations to help customers make online purchasing decisions. Marks Design, a brand design and experience agency, is using Omniverse and OpenUSD to streamline collaboration and improve its animation, visualization, and rendering workflows. Luxury electric vehicle maker DENZA, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and BYD, has worked with communications firm WPP and NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud to build the next generation of car configurators. WPP can use generative AI or scans of real-world environments captured by a Boston…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.33
January 20, 2022
…than 50 industry partners and investors, including automotive manufacturers Volvo Cars for consumer vehicles and Daimler Truck AG for commercial trucks. The company has also partnered with NVIDIA and Intel’s Mobileye unit as it builds next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for production vehicles. Mercedes to use Luminar lidar in production Mercedes-Benz said it has developed “active and passive vehicle safety measures for almost 70 years, not only for the benefit of Mercedes drivers, but also for that of other road users.” Its technologies include advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) for cruise control, distance control, steering, and changing lanes. With DRIVE PILOT,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.32
June 01, 2021
…three California cities, and recently partnered with lidar provider Luminar Technologies Inc. DiDi Autonomous Driving has also partnered with Volvo Cars, which will provide XC90 cars for its self-driving test fleet. The cars will include backup systems for steering and braking in addition to DiDi's autonomy equipment and software. In April, DiDi released a video that it claimed showed five consecutive hours of autonomous vehicle operation without human intervention.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.12
May 10, 2021
…signed a production deal for autonomous consumer vehicles with Volvo Cars last year. Luminar has also partnered with Daimler Truck AG, and it has nearly 400 employees. Pony.ai to integrate Luminar sensors Pony.ai said it plans to deploy automotive-grade production autonomous fleets in 2023 globally. The next-generation fleet will integrate Luminar’s Iris and feature a multi-sensor 360-degree configuration and a profile of 10cm (3.9 in.) off of the vehicle roof. The partners said their goal is to increase safe, autonomous driving in complex urban environments with an integrated sensor design that leads advanced development to production scale. The partnership followed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.27
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…
