Honda Begins Joint Research on AI Technologies with the IIT in Delhi and Bombay
Honda
announced that it has begun joint research on AI technologies with the Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs), more specifically, Indian Institute of
Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT
Bombay), to further advance Honda CI (Cooperative Intelligence, CI), original Honda AI that
enables mutual understanding between machines and people.
The
IITs are a home to a large number of excellent researchers and engineers, and
through the joint research with those institutes, Honda will strive to advance
the underlying technologies of CI, with an eye toward the future applications
for technologies that reduce traffic collisions and enable automated
driving.
Honda has been working on
research and development of CI with the aim to realize a society where each and
every person can enjoy the joy and freedom of mobility. To this end, Honda is
trying to make the mobility of people and things ubiquitous (whenever,
wherever, to any destination), collision-free and stress-free. Honda is currently
conducting technology demonstrations as a proof of concept of its CI-powered
micro-mobility vehicle/robot in Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
Aiming to achieve further
advancement of CI, Honda and IITs have set joint research themes such as recognition
of the surrounding environment and cultivation of cooperative behavior, and
will conduct joint research and development while utilizing the cutting-edge AI
technologies. Moreover, for each research theme, Honda associates and IIT
professors will jointly engage with IIT students for planning, designing,
developing and testing technologies which work beyond the confines of the
laboratory and thereby proceed with the research and development more flexibly
and with a high degree of freedom. This will enable Honda and IITs to work in a
more flexible environment with deeper exchange of academic and industry
insights.
In addition, as part of this
joint research, Honda with the help of IITs is aiming to conduct verification
of driving assistance and automated driving technologies in the suburbs of
Delhi and in Mumbai. Due to numerous variations in the road systems and a large
number of road users, India has a complex traffic environment where situations
that occur frequently are difficult for AI to predict. By conducting technology
verification in such a technically challenging environment, Honda and IITs will
refine the underlying technologies of CI and strive to apply them to future
driver assistance and automated driving technologies in various regions of the
world, including India.
Honda
has been actively hiring IIT graduates since 2019, and many of them are now
playing key roles in the areas of mobility intelligence, including the research
and development of CI. By pursuing joint research programs with IIT professors
and students specializing in cutting-edge AI and automated driving
technologies, Honda will accelerate research and development of CI and also
contribute to the fostering of researchers who will play a role in future AI
research by providing them with practical research opportunities.
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