Honda has utilized this year’s consumer electronics show to reveal a partnership between its innovation programme, Honda Xcelerator, as well as six innovation start-ups. The aim is to enhance future mobility tech, including autonomous drive systems as well as artificial intelligence.
Honda Xcelerator is part of Honda Innovations, a Silicon Valley-based centre that focuses on providing gain access to as well as funding to experimental start-ups. It prioritises enterprises working on linked vehicles, artificial intelligence, energy innovation, personal mobility solutions as well as robotics.
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The partnerships, demonstrated by Honda at the CES worldwide trendsetter Showcase, include business from the US, Canada, Europe, Israel as well as Singapore. new York-based BRAIQ is establishing tech that measures passengers’ reactions to autonomous driving systems to personalise the method the vehicle drives itself, while DynaOptics, based in Singapore, provides autonomous camera lenses with advanced ‘free-form’ optics.
Honda is likewise investing in California’s DeepMap, which provides high-definition, real-time maps as a service to autonomous cars, as well as Tel Aviv-based EXO Technologies, which declares to provide high-accuracy, low-cost GPS positioning solutions for driverless systems.
Finally, it has partnered with Canadian start-up Tactual Labs, a team from the university of Toronto that is innovating with real-time human body ‘pose sensing’, utilized in gesture manage systems for in-car tech. The Japanese carmaker is attractive to further start-ups to apply into its programme during the CES show.
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