Volvo Cars and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to develop automated-driving technology for future Volvo electric cars. The technology combines Volvo’s safety systems with NVIDIA’s Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack driving software.
The companies aim to support driving in highways and urban streets to parking areas. The work draws on its safety research and engineering expertise, along with NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence and accelerated computing technologies.
Volvo plans to introduce “eyes-off” and “mind-off” driving gradually. It says the technology will debut in a next-generation Volvo car as part of its recently announced product rollout. The companies began collaborating in 2017.
“Volvo has been synonymous with car safety for almost 100 years,” said Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars. “By working with NVIDIA, we bring together two distinct strengths: industry-leading safety knowledge and world-class AI technology. That combination gives us a unique opportunity to create safer and more attractive cars for our customers.”
“Accelerated computing has transformed the car into an intelligent machine that can understand the world around it,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Volvo has spent nearly a century protecting people on the road. Together, we’re combining Volvo’s extraordinary vehicle safety systems with NVIDIA Hyperion and Halos to build a new generation of cars that make driving safer and more effortless.”
Source: NVIDIA
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.
About Volvo Car Group
Volvo Car Group, also known as Volvo Cars, is separate from the Volvo Group described at the supplied link. Founded in 1927, the passenger-car company is based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It sells electric, plug-in hybrid and mild-hybrid cars, including SUVs and wagons. Its services include connected-car features, charging access, maintenance and roadside assistance. Customers include individual buyers, families and corporate fleets. Volvo Cars sells vehicles in more than 100 countries. It produces cars in Belgium, China, Sweden and the United States. Retail deliveries totaled about 710,000 vehicles, with electrified models accounting for 46%.
