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Tag: Project Apollo

Baidu and BYD Partner for Mass Production of Autonomous Cars
7Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments
CHINA

Baidu and BYD Partner for Mass Production of Autonomous Cars

China’s largest technology company and search engine Baidu Inc and China's leading electric car maker BYD have announced their plan that bothr the companies are partnering with an aim to start mass producing self-driving cars in the coming three years' time. It was last year that Baidu had launched Project Apollo, which was titled after the Apollo moon landing project. The project was started to mark the start of its push to get self-driving cars on the road in China. A technician from Baidu informed that Project Apollo will offer the software platform that can be used by car manufacturers. Baidu has already manufactured more than 100 autonomous buses and has plans to sell to foreign markets, including Japan, which is set to receive 10 in early 2019. Apart from BYD, China’s Google ha...
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Baidu Partners With US Chipmaker to Bolster Project Apollo
12Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments
CHINA

Baidu Partners With US Chipmaker to Bolster Project Apollo

Amercian data conversion and signal processing company Analog Devices (ADI) has entered into a collaboration memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China’s biggest technology company Baidu, for the purpose of improving and developing the Chinese company’s autonomous driving technologies. The partnership was taken forward on Tuesday and it is expected to bolster the autonomous driving solutions for Project Apollo, Baidu’s autonomous driving system platform, including sensor fusion, algorithms and ecosystem partners. The US and the Chinese company will together share resources and set up sensing and navigation applications such as RADAR and LIDAR for Project Apollo, and also and digital signal processing (DSP) products. “ADI offers groundbreaking advantages in autonomous driving, cabin e...
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