Autonomous vehicle and robotics automation AI software company Helm.ai has announced an expansion of Helm.ai Driver.
The software is a vision-only software stack designed to scale seamlessly from advanced Level 2+ systems through Level 4 urban autonomy.
Founded in 2016, Helm.ai delivers full-stack driving software for on-car deployment and simulation tools powered by Deep Teaching and generative AI and partners with global automakers on production-bound programmes.
The true test of an autonomous system for mass-production vehicles is its ability to handle ‘unseen’ environments without manual tuning or HD maps.
To validate this, Helm.ai recently demonstrated the system’s generalisation capability by deploying the software in Torrance, California (the Greater Los Angeles area).
Without any prior training on the area’s specific streets, Helm.ai Driver was able to perform ‘zero-shot’ autonomous steering.
This ability to generalise across geographies ensures that Helm.ai’s OEM partners can scale Level 2+ through Level 4 features globally without the prohibitive cost of city-by-city data collection or geofencing.
CEO and founder of Helm.ai., Vladislav Voroninski, said: “The industry has reached a tipping point where brute-force data collection is no longer commercially viable for high-end autonomy.
“With Helm.ai Driver, we have fundamentally changed the unit economics of scalable autonomy.
“By delivering a vision-first system that powers advanced Level 2+ today, and serves as the software brain for the transition to Level 3 and Level 4 autonomy, we are providing OEMs with the only realistic path to deploying next-generation autonomy on mass-market compute platforms.”
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