Ford are to pour a billion US Dollars into artificial-intelligence startup Argo AI over the next five years, to devise and build brains for robot cars.
Honda are looking to take the next step from robots and smart unicycles to intelligent cars. Bosch are proud of their new AI computer for cars. It’s all because artificial intelligence stands to let autonomous vehicles better and easier assess situations they come to face. And not only can an AV then factor what it learns into its own operation, but it can also share the knowledge with other artificially intelligent AVs.
Argo, the beneficiary of Ford’s big investment, was founded last year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Bryan Salesky (late of Google) and Peter Rander (late of Uber). Both are alumni of the Carnegie Mellon National Robotics Engineering Center, and left their respective companies late last year to form Argo AI. Argo specialise in robotics and virtual driver systems, and will augment Ford’s AV team as the automaker prepare to market a fully self-driving car in 2021.