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(Reuters) - Intel Corp’s Mobileye has teamed with four-year-old Silicon Valley startup Udelv in an effort to put automated electric delivery vehicles into service in the United States by 2023, the companies said on Monday.
A computer rendering of an automated electric delivery vehicle, the Udelv Transporter, that will have a self-driving system developed by Intel s Mobileye. Robar PR/Handout via REUTERS
Mobileye is supplying a fully automated driving system for Udelv’s new Transporter, a boxy electric shuttle without seats or cockpit that is designed specifically for delivery.
Udelv will not sell the vehicles, but will offer them as part of a subscription-based delivery-as-a-service package to commercial customers. And while the vehicles will not have human drivers, Udelv plans to offer a teleoperation feature with humans remotely assisting customers with vehicle loading and unloading.
Intel s Mobileye, Udelv Partner On Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
SANTA CLARA (dpa-AFX) - Intel Corp s Mobileye and self-driving delivery startup Udelv have signed a deal to launch a fully driverless delivery service in the United States by 2023, the companies said in a statement.
Udelv said that Mobileye s self-driving system Mobileye Drive will drive Udelv s next-generation autonomous delivery vehicles Transporters.
The companies plan to produce more than 35,000 Mobileye-driven Transporters by 2028, with commercial operations beginning in 2023.
The commercial fleet leasing and management company Donlen placed the first pre-order for 1,000 Transporters.
Mobileye plans to deploy autonomous shuttles with Transdev ATS and Lohr Group beginning in Europe. Mobileye also plans to begin operating an autonomous ride-hailing service in Israel in early 2022.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence chip designer Wave Computing Inc said on Monday it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following an auction of the company and will rebrand the firm as MIPS.
The company traces its origins back to MIPS Computer Systems Inc, cofounded more than 35 years ago by Stanford University professor John Hennessy, who is now chairman of Alphabet Inc. MIPS was the commercial home of an earlier academic effort to create an architecture for computer processors that remain in wide use today by firms such as Intel Corp’s Mobileye self-driving car unit.
Wave Computing filed for bankruptcy in April. It was revealed by bankruptcy filings and Reuters reporting that in late 2018 and 2019, the company licensed its core computing architecture for use in China, Hong Kong and Macau to a Shanghai-based firm, CIP United Co Ltd, in a complex series of transactions. The transactions occurred just as a chip war was escalating betwee
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