Hyundai, Avride join forces to develop autonomous robotaxis

Hyundai Motor Company has signed a memorandum of knowing with Yandex spinoff Avride to accelerate autonomous mobility.

Under the partnership, some the firms volition jointly make and run vehicles susceptible of afloat autonomous driving.

The concern aims to harvester Hyundai's EV level technology, peculiarly the IONIQ 5, with Avride's autonomous driving expertise, to beforehand the improvement of aboriginal mobility solutions, specified arsenic robotaxis and autonomous transportation services.

The collaboration builds connected Avride's acquisition of utilizing Hyundai vehicles, specified arsenic the Sonata and IONIQ 5, arsenic platforms for autonomous technology.

Hyundai volition play a pivotal relation successful this partnership, providing precocious exertion enactment to alteration the deployment of vehicles featuring Avride's autonomous systems.

The statement volition spot an summation successful Avride's IONIQ 5-based fleet. The archetypal of these vehicles is planned to beryllium deployed successful the coming months.

The IONIQ 5 vehicles volition beryllium assembled astatine Hyundai's caller new Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) manufacturing installation successful Georgia. The vehicles volition past beryllium outfitted with Avride's technology.

Scheduled to beryllium introduced successful Dallas aboriginal this year, these robotaxis volition beryllium operating exclusively connected Uber's platform.

Avride CEO Dmitry Polishchuk said: “Our squad has been moving with Hyundai Motor Group since 2019, and we worth the professionalism and collaboration that person defined this partnership.

“This caller statement with Hyundai Motor Company volition assistance america standard our operations significantly, with plans to grow our fleet to up to 100 autonomous IONIQ 5’s successful 2025, leveraging Hyundai Motor’s IONIQ 5 and our autonomous driving technology.”

Both companies volition absorption connected processing autonomous vehicles for robotaxi applications and research collaboration successful autonomous transportation services utilizing Avride's robots.

Hyundai Motor Group Advanced Vehicle Platform (AVP) Division president and caput Chang Song said: “Hyundai Motor Company is actively advancing its autonomous conveyance foundry concern successful pursuit of pioneering vehicles astir suitable for Level 4 autonomous driving.

“We are expanding our collaboration with starring autonomous driving tech companies similar Avride, fostering an situation wherever their innovations tin actively enactment successful our endeavor to signifier the aboriginal of mobility.”

In October 2024, Uber Technologies and Avride teamed up to integrate Avride's transportation robots and autonomous vehicles into the Uber and Uber Eats services.

"Hyundai, Avride articulation forces to make autonomous robotaxis" was primitively created and published by Just Auto, a GlobalData owned brand.