Aurora Innovation
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VW is tipped to announce a partnership with Ford in the area of self-driving cars by the summer.
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FCA, Aurora make moves to realize self-driving commercial vehiclesFCA will look to integrate the Aurora Driver self-driving system into its commercial vehicles.
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Amazon invests in self-driving car company Aurora Innovation
What started with books has reached the budding self-driving car sector. Amazon has invested in self-driving car company Aurora Innovation, the self-driving technology firm announced last Thursday. The actual figure it had received from Amazon wasn't disclosed in Aurora's announcement, but in...
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VW reportedly tried buying Aurora to catch up in self-driving car race
The Volkswagen Group looks to be a bit behind in the mobility and self-driving car segments compared to some rivals as the automaker is on the hunt to scoop up experts on the subject. It appears Aurora Innovation, a self-driving car startup based in California, was one of the firms VW approached...
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Byton partners with Aurora for self-driving tech
Chinese startup Byton announced on Monday it will lean on Aurora, a U.S.-based self-driving technology company, to help incorporate Level 4 and Level 5 self-driving tech into its prototype and possibly its production cars. Aurora has plenty of other partnerships with more established automakers...
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Hyundai aims for Level 4 self-driving car by 2021, with help from Aurora Innovation
Hyundai on Thursday announced a strategic partnership with self-driving car technology company Aurora Innovation. Hyundai plans to tap Aurora’s talents to bring to market a self-driving car by 2021. Level 4 means a vehicle can fully operate on its own in select conditions. Specifically...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
The Volkswagen Group will use next week’s 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to formally announce a strategic partnership with a self-driving company by the name of Aurora Innovation. You may not have heard of Aurora but you’ll definitely know of the key people behind it if you’ve been following the current race in the self-driving car space: Aurora was founded in 2016 by Chris Urmson, Drew Bagnell and Sterling Anderson. Urmson, a former Carnegie Mellon robotics researcher, headed the Google Self-Driving Car Project (now Waymo) until 2015. He famously said in 2015...
