PALO
ALTO, Calif., April 20,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Hesai Technology reached
strategic cooperation with autonomous truck company, KargoBot. They
will jointly promote the application of automotive-grade, hybrid
solid-state lidar AT128 for L4 autonomous trucks, working together
to implement safer, more intelligent commercial logistics
applications.
Lidar is one of the core sensors for advanced autonomous driving
solutions, providing high-precision 3D sensing for autonomous
vehicles. Hesai's AT128 is a long-range and automotive-grade hybrid
solid-state lidar integrated with 128 lasers, and an
ultra-high-point frequency of 1.53 million points per
second.
Since the start of mass production and delivery in 2022, AT128
has empowered the launch of various passenger car models. Last
year, Hesai delivered over 60,000 units of AT128 lidar to OEM
customers such as Li Auto. Backed by excellent performance, high
cost-efficiency, and strong mass-production and delivery
capability, AT128 is fully-qualified to empower L4 autonomous
trucks.
As a company incubated by Didi Autonomous Driving, KargoBot
focuses on the R&D of L4 autonomous driving technology and its
commercial operation, with full-stack development capability.
KargoBot has innovatively developed a hybrid-autonomous
solution. It includes a pilot ADAS vehicle with a human driver, and
multiple L4 self-driving trucks, which greatly improves the
capability to deal with various long-tail scenarios and complex
interactions during commercial opeartions. Currently, KargoBot has
more than 100 autonomous trucks. As of March this year, KargoBot's
cumulative revenue has exceeded 100 million
yuan.
KargoBot's autonomous trucks are the first L4 commercial trucks
to use automotive-grade, hybrid solid-state lidar in China. In early 2022, KargoBot successfully
integrated 5 AT128 into its autonomous truck, achieving 360 degree
FOV coverage, significantly reducing vertical blindspots. After
operating in harsh conditions including sand, rain, snow, and
unpaved roads for nearly two years, the AT128 lidars are still
functioning at zero failure.
Hesai's AT128 sensor achieves a complete, unstitched field of
view and a uniformly distributed structured point cloud, making it
algorithm friendly. KargoBot uses image-like data representations
and modern computer vision methods to develop AT128's efficient
multi-tasking perception algorithms.
Unlike conventional point cloud algorithms, the perception
algorithm organizes AT128's point cloud data directly into a dense
image data format, achieving superior results in real-scenario road
testing.
Hesai AT128 has excellent performance, high reliability and high
cost-efficiency, which can effectively help KargoBot to develop an
autonomous driving system that meets automotive-grade and mass
production standards. In the future, Hesai will continue to empower
KargoBot to iterate its autonomous driving technology solutions,
and promote the large-scale implementation of autonomous
logistics.
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