Autonomous Vehicles – Weekly Highlights – May 16, 2020

Intellizence brings you the latest news and trends related to Autonomous Vehicles, driverless, self-driving space for the week ending May 16, 2020.

ALLIANCE & PARTNERSHIPS

Fiat Chrysler and AV startup Voyage partner on self-driving minivans

Self-driving vehicle startup Voyage has inked a deal with Fiat Chrysler to supply purpose-built vehicles, a partnership that will help accelerate its plan to launch a fully driverless ride-hailing service. (read more)

Xilinx and Avnet partner to deploy new autonomous driving solutions

Xilinx and Avnet have partnered to provide developers with innovative autonomous driving solutions. (read more)

FUNDRAISING & INVESTMENT

Alphabet AV unit Waymo lands another $750M in outside funding

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc., has raised $750 million more in funding it announced in March, bringing the total raised in the round to $3 billion. (read more)

NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH

Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways

Volvo Cars will start producing vehicles in 2022 that are equipped with lidar and a perception stack — technology developed by Silicon Valley startup Luminar that the automaker will use to deploy an automated driving system for highways. (read more)

PILOT & TRIAL

A patrol robot by Korea maker Mando to be tested out in the real environment in July

An autonomous vehicle will be deployed to patrol a park in Gyeonggi Province in July after the autonomous robot prototype developed by Korea’s auto parts maker Mando Corp. gained approval for a field test in July. (read more)