AImotive (formerly AdasWorks) is an autonomous vehicle technology company. The company aims works with automotive manufacturers and Tier1s to enable automated technologies. AImotive describes its approach as “vision-first”, a system that primarily relies on cameras and artificial intelligence to detect its surroundings. The technology is designed to be implemented by automobile manufacturers to create autonomous vehicles, which can operate in all conditions and locations.

Technology

AImotive is developing three branches of technology connected to autonomous vehicles. aiDrive is a software stack for automated driving. aiSim is a virtual simulation environment, and aiWare, a silicon IP for chips that compute artificial intelligence.

aiDrive utilizes artificial intelligence and data from cameras and other sensors. AImotive focuses on processing visual information, this approach is similar to that of Tesla, which some industry experts consider risky.  The company tests its technology on highways in the United States and Europe. AImotive prototype Toyota Prius driving on highway.

aiSim is a virtual simulation environment for testing autonomous vehicles. In spring 2020 AImotive announced that the simulator had received ISO 26262 tool certification to TCL3.

The hardware architecture by AImotive is a dedicated embedded artificial intelligence accelerator for computer vision with high-resolution input.