Oxbotica and Google Cloud have formed a partnership to deploy autonomous software for automated driving applications for last-mile logistics, agriculture, light industry and public transportation.
Under the agreement, Google Cloud’s infrastructure will be combined with Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software to create autonomous driving solutions to work with any transportation business value chain.
Oxbotica said it will use Google Cloud’s compute, storage, networking and data and analytics products to develop, test, validate and verify its autonomous technology. It will also use digital twins in Oxbotica’s MetaDriver — an artificial intelligence power metaverse that connects and controls virtual and physical fleets together — to send real-time analytics on performance.
MetaDriver automatically generates virtual scenarios for safety inside autonomous vehicles. Using Google Cloud, these virtual scenarios will be able to test for unusual edge cases such as day and night cycle of sensor data as well as seasonal and extreme weather conditions.
Real world applications will be created for this technology including passenger shuttles operating all day on fixed routes in cities to help combat the driver shortage. With this collaboration, Oxbotica can explore the larger impact autonomous vehicles will have on congestion, public transit and more.
