The Toronto-based company is expanding to add hardware engineers to integrate sensors, lidar, vision and computing systems into trucks as it shifts to real-world testing.
and plans to catch up to Waymo, TuSimple and Aurora by relying heavily on cutting-edge AI tools and less of what Urtasun calls a traditional “robotics mindset” that requires vastly more data, solving an almost endless list of tasks and incalculable miles of on-road driving to train the software.
“We don't feel at all that we are late to the game or we will be delayed with respect to the other competitors.”Waabi says it’s hardware and software teams are fully integrated to enable faster development of self-driving vehicles with continuous validation in, its high-fidelity, closed-loop simulator the company believes is the industry’s most advanced.
Trucking and delivery services have become a leading focus of autonomous driving development as the operating environment–highways rather than urban streets–is seen as somewhat easier for robot drivers to master. The ongoing shortage of long-haul drivers also means the $800 billion trucking market is eager for solutions to meet rising demand for shipping.
Closely-held Waabi’s new hardware team comes after it recruited Vivian Sun, previously TuSimple’s vice president of business development, as chief commercial officer in February as it looks for trucking partners. Urtasun, previously chief scientist for Uber ATG’s self-driving team, declined to discuss which companies it expects to work with and when trucks using Waabi’s technology will be ready to begin hauling commercial loads.
“We are not ready now to unveil what is our timeline but we are aligned with the industry–and we are going very, very fast,” she said. “We don't feel at all that we are late to the game or will be delayed with respect to the other competitors.”
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