Hyundai Motor Group clinches AI partnership with Nvidia in software, robotics

Kim Heung-soo, left, govt vice chairman and head of the worldwide technique workplace at Hyundai Motor Group, poses with Rishi Dhall, vice chairman of automotive at Nvidia, after either side agreed to deepen a synthetic intelligence (AI) partnership on the Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas, Thursday (native time). Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group

Hyundai Motor Group has fashioned a synthetic intelligence (AI) partnership with Nvidia to combine the software program and fabless firm’s AI applied sciences into the carmaker’s key mobility worth chain, each firms introduced Friday at this 12 months’s CES tech truthful in Las Vegas.

Underneath the alliance, Hyundai Motor will undertake Nvidia’s AI options in areas resembling software-defined automobiles (SDVs), robotics and sensible manufacturing.

For example, the carmaker plans to make the most of Nvidia’s Omniverse digital twin expertise to simulate a digital illustration earlier than constructing new manufacturing amenities.

The expertise is predicted to reinforce manufacturing effectivity and enhance the standard of finish merchandise within the period of sensible factories, in line with the carmaker.

Hyundai Motor Group can be set to make the most of the AI chipmaker’s Isaac robotic growth platform to develop extra refined AI robots. The imaginative and prescient displays the carmaker’s will to show its robotics enterprise into its subsequent main income generator after buying Boston Dynamics in 2021.

As well as, the Korean mobility options supplier will strengthen its partnership with Nvidia to leverage the tech firm’s AI experience in key mobility development areas, together with SDVs and autonomous driving. The carmaker is absolutely dedicated to equipping its car lineup with superior software program techniques to steer the sensible mobility period.

The carmaker stated Nvidia’s accelerated computing and AI enterprise software program will assist the group handle the huge quantities of knowledge required to soundly develop and practice AI fashions for numerous mobility functions.

“Hyundai Motor Group is exploring modern approaches with AI applied sciences in numerous fields, resembling robotics, autonomous driving and sensible manufacturing unit,” Kim Heung-soo, govt vice chairman and head of the worldwide technique workplace on the group, stated. “The partnership will speed up our progress and assist place the group as a frontrunner in driving AI-empowered mobility innovation.”

Nvidia additionally spoke extremely of the tech alliance with the carmaker, underscoring the significance of AI for safer mobility.

“Accelerated computing, generative AI and Omniverse are unlocking a brand new period of mobility,” Rishi Dhall, vice chairman of automotive at Nvidia, stated. “This partnership will drive the creation of safer, extra clever automobiles, supercharge manufacturing with better effectivity and high quality, and deploy cutting-edge robotics to assist construct a wiser, extra linked digital office.”

The most recent announcement got here a day after Hyundai Motor Group revealed its 24.3 trillion received ($16.67 billion) funding plan for 2025 in Korea. The carmaker plans to allocate a good portion of the funding to autonomous driving, software program, and AI, all of that are recognized because the group’s subsequent core development areas.