[250826] #Vueron Technology #Honda #Nuro

Vol. 245 | 2025.08.26

Category	Company	Article
LiDAR	Vueron Technology	Vueron Technology selects Mirae Asset Securities for IPO to boost R&D
ADAS	Helm.ai, Honda Motor	Helm.ai and Honda Motor agree to multi-year ADAS joint development for mass production consumer vehicles
Self-driving	Nuro	Nuro closes $203 million series E financing to advance its AI-first self-driving technology and commercial partnerships
Autonomous Trucking	Kodiak Robotics, NXP	Kodiak Robotics enhances autonomous truck safety with NXP tech
ADAS	WeRide, Bosch	WeRide launches one-stage ADAS developed with Bosch

Vueron Technology selects Mirae Asset Securities
for IPO to boost R&D

📌 Leveraging its powerful AI-based LiDAR perception technology, Vueron Technology is launching full-scale preparations for its IPO.

• Vueron Technology, a company specializing in AI-based LiDAR perception solutions, has appointed Mirae Asset Securities as its IPO lead underwriter.

• The company develops and supplies perception solutions that analyze 3D data from LiDAR sensors using AI to classify objects and provide key information such as their location, size, and speed.

• Its main products include ‘VueOne’ for autonomous driving and ADAS, and ‘VueTwo’ for smart infrastructure. Based on these products, the company is engaged in mass-production projects with global OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, as well as government and municipal organizations.

• Its software is compatible with all LiDAR sensors regardless of the manufacturer and can operate even on low-spec, low-power automotive-grade chips (MCUs).

• ‘VueX’, introduced this year, is an integrated AI development platform that supports the entire process, including data collection, processing, model training, and deployment. It has obtained the AWS Partner Software Path certification and is listed on the AWS Marketplace.

• Last September, despite a challenging investment climate, the company proved its technical vision and business viability by successfully securing a large-scale Series A funding of 22 billion KRW.

• Through the IPO, Vueron Technology plans to strengthen its R&D capabilities, enhance its global competitiveness, and set new global technology standards in the autonomous driving and smart infrastructure sectors.

 

Helm.ai and Honda Motor agree to multi-year ADAS
joint development for mass production consumer vehicles

📌 Helm.ai and Honda are co-developing AI-driven ADAS and NOA systems to scale safe autonomous driving for mass-market vehicles.

• Helm.ai signed a multi-year joint development agreement with Honda to advance next-generation autonomous driving, including Honda’s Navigate on Autopilot (NOA) platform.

• The collaboration focuses on ADAS for consumer vehicles using Helm.ai’s real-time AI stack, large-scale autolabeling, and generative simulation models for development and validation.

• Helm.ai provides its perception stack (Helm.ai Vision), path prediction AI (Helm.ai Driver), and generative simulation tools (VidGen-2, GenSim-1/2, WorldGen-1) powered by Deep Teaching™.

• Honda’s NOA system uses an end-to-end AI architecture for perception, decision-making, and actuation, supporting highway and urban driving with partial automation.

• Honda plans to mass-produce the NOA-based E2E technology after 2027, aiming to integrate it across a wider lineup and assist accelerator and steering operations on all roads.

• Both companies emphasize safety, scalability, and reducing traffic fatalities, with AI-powered mobility as a core vision.

 

Nuro closes $203 million series E financing
to advance its AI-first self-driving technology
and commercial partnerships

📌 Nuro secures major funding to scale its AI-driven autonomous tech, deepen OEM partnerships, and launch global robotaxi services.

• Nuro closed a $203M Series E round at a $6B valuation, with investors including Uber, Baillie Gifford, NVIDIA, Icehouse Ventures, Kindred Ventures, and Pledge Ventures.

• The round adds $97M to the $106M announced in April 2025, with earlier investors such as T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Tiger Global, Greylock, and XN.

• Funds will scale Nuro’s AI-first autonomous driving tech and expand commercial partnerships for integration into fleets, ride-hailing, and personal vehicles.

• Nuro Driver™ offers an established, cost-effective platform for OEMs and mobility providers to adopt proven autonomy solutions.

• Nvidia expanded its collaboration by investing; Nuro uses Nvidia DRIVE AGX Thor hardware and NVIDIA GPUs for data processing and model training.

• Nuro partnered with Lucid and Uber to deploy over 20,000 robotaxis globally starting next year, with Uber’s investment tied to milestones.

• The company has raised over $2.3B, with nine years of R&D and five years of driverless city-scale deployments across multiple U.S. states.

Kodiak Robotics enhances autonomous truck
safety with NXP tech

📌Kodiak is bolstering autonomous truck safety with NXP’s ISO 26262-certified computing solutions, enabling redundant and reliable vehicle control.

• Kodiak Robotics integrated NXP Semiconductors’ automotive processors and networking interfaces into its autonomous trucking platform to improve performance and reliability.

• NXP’s solutions are built into Kodiak’s custom Actuation Control Engine (ACE), which converts electrical/mechanical signals into motion for vehicle control.

• The integration supports Kodiak Driver, enabling safe fallback maneuvers and vehicle stoppage if a safety-critical component or the autonomous system fails.

• NXP hardware includes S32G3 network processors, S32K3 microcontrollers, VR5510 PMIC, and PF53 regulators to enable redundant braking, steering, throttle control, and system monitoring.

• All components meet ISO 26262 ASIL-D standards, ensuring extremely low failure rates critical for autonomous trucking safety.

• Kodiak’s autonomous trucks are already in commercial operations with Atlas Energy Solutions and the company plans to go public via Ares Acquisition Corp. II.

• Both companies highlight the necessity of uncompromising safety standards for driverless trucks compared to human-driven vehicles.

WeRide launches one-stage ADAS developed with Bosch

📌 WeRide and Bosch’s WePilot AiDrive delivers faster, adaptable ADAS with scalable architecture and advanced urban driving capabilities.

• WeRide and Bosch unveiled WePilot AiDrive, a one-stage end-to-end ADAS launched six months after their two-stage system entered mass production.

• The system merges sensing and decision-making into a single-stage architecture for faster reactions, efficient routing, and fault tolerance.

• It handles complex urban scenarios including heavy traffic, unprotected turns, unexpected roadworks, and dense interactions with other vehicles.

• WePilot AiDrive runs on high-performance platforms but can scale to mid- and low-power systems using model distillation.

• Middleware separates algorithms from hardware and foundational software, enabling smooth deployment across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.

• The system supports pure vision and multi-sensor fusion and uses auto-labeled driving data to improve performance in rare and complex cases.

• Modular Level 2 functions accelerate integration and mass production timelines for automakers.

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