BAIDU Automotive AI

Baidu made several announcements about Apollo, its open-source autonomous vehicle technology platform, today at CES. First is, the launch of Apollo Enterprise for vehicles that will be put into mass production. Apollo Enterprise’s main product lines will include solutions for highway autonomous driving; autonomous valet parking; fully autonomous mini-buses; an intelligent map data service platform; and DuerOS (Baidu’s voice assistant) for cars. Baidu also released Apollo 3.5, the latest version of its platform, which now supports “complex urban and suburban driving environments. Baidu plans to launch 100 robo-taxis that will cover 130 miles of city roads in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province. The robo-taxis will use Baidu’s V2X (i.e. vehicle-to-everything) technology, to enable them to communicate with road infrastructure, like traffic lights