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2026. 1. 6.

Vol. 264 2026.01.06. | View as Webpage

Company	Article
Vueron Technology	Vueron Technology to Unveil 'VueX' at CES 2026
Waymo	Waymo and Other Driverless Taxis Move Into a New Era
Waabi	Beyond the highway: Waabi’s bet on door-to-door autonomy
MediaTek, Denso	MediaTek and Denso to develop SoCs for ADAS
Seyond	Seyond to Showcase Complete End-to-End LiDAR Portfolio and Mass-Production-Ready Solid-State LiDAR at CES 2026
Feautred	CES Show Floor Trivia (Vueron Technology at LVCC West Hall #3569)

Vueron Technology to Unveil 'VueX' at CES 2026

2025-12-30 | 🔗 Go to the article

📌 Vueron Technology will unveil VueX, a LiDAR-based Cognitive AI foundry platform, at CES 2026, targeting global adoption across autonomous driving, robotics, and smart infrastructure.

Vueron Technology will participate in CES 2026, held in Las Vegas from January 7–10, where it will present its LiDAR-based Cognitive AI development platform, VueX.
VueX is a cloud-based, end-to-end platform that applies a foundry concept to LiDAR Cognitive AI, covering data collection, labeling, model training, and deployment in a single system.
The platform converts raw LiDAR data into high-quality training datasets within minutes to hours, supporting faster and more reliable AI model development for autonomous driving and smart city applications.
VueX allows customers to fully retain and reuse generated data and AI models without usage restrictions, enabling deployment across automotive, robotics, logistics, drones, and other industries.
The platform expands LiDAR perception beyond ADAS and autonomous driving into broader industrial and infrastructure use cases requiring scalable 3D perception AI.
Vueron has validated its technology through deliveries to global customers in the United States, Europe, and Japan, and positions VueX as a way to reuse globally proven Cognitive AI models.
At CES 2026, Vueron will demonstrate automated data labeling and Cognitive AI model generation at its booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall.
The company will also showcase hands-on demos that allow visitors to directly experience LiDAR-based perception and Cognitive AI workflows.

Waymo and Other Driverless Taxis Move Into a New Era

2025-12-30 | 🔗 Go to the article

📌 In 2025, robotaxis shifted from technology trials to real-world business experiments, as Waymo, Tesla, and Zoox scaled deployments while testing how autonomous ride-hailing can become economically viable.

2025 marked the year autonomous robotaxis became a routine sight in major U.S. cities, despite high-profile incidents involving animals and a temporary service suspension during a San Francisco power outage.
Waymo now operates driverless taxi services across six U.S. cities, delivering passengers as reliably as conventional cabs in everyday use cases.
Tesla is expanding its ride-hailing trials in Austin and San Francisco, while preparing further rollouts in Arizona, Florida, and Nevada, currently with safety drivers onboard.
Zoox operates purpose-built robotaxis without steering wheels or pedals in cities including Las Vegas, Miami, and Seattle.
Industry sentiment improved after years of setbacks, with Waymo reporting over 1 million fully autonomous rides per month and targeting weekly volumes at that scale by the end of 2026.
Waymo is reportedly seeking to raise $15 billion at a $100 billion valuation and plans geographic expansion to Dallas, Houston, Miami, and additional markets.
Autonomous taxi operators are now experimenting with business models, including direct-to-consumer apps in some cities and partnerships with Uber in others, to test demand, pricing, and operational efficiency.
Collaborations such as Waymo’s partnership with Toyota highlight strategic moves to scale autonomy beyond fleet-owned vehicles and compete with Tesla’s privately owned FSD-enabled cars.

Beyond the highway: Waabi’s bet on door-to-door autonomy

2026-01-02 | 🔗 Go to the article

📌 Waabi is positioning door-to-door autonomous trucking as the only scalable commercial model, leveraging generative AI and deep OEM integration to move beyond highway-only autonomy.

Waabi announced a shift toward street-level, door-to-door autonomous trucking, alongside a new direct-to-customer business model, aiming to overcome the limitations of highway-only autonomy.
Lior Ron, Waabi’s COO and former CEO of Uber Freight, noted that rapid advances in generative AI have compressed autonomy timelines from years to quarters, accelerating readiness for commercial deployment.
Waabi emphasizes that fully driverless operation requires both software maturity and OEM-approved, fully redundant truck hardware, highlighting ongoing friction between autonomy software providers and vehicle manufacturers.
The company strongly favors a point-to-point freight model over hub-and-spoke, arguing that highway-only autonomy adds $200–$300 in first- and last-mile costs per leg that customers are unwilling to pay.
Hub-and-spoke autonomous models introduce operational complexity and reliability risks, especially for time-sensitive shippers such as Walmart, making them difficult to scale commercially.
Waabi believes most freight will remain end-to-end, facility-to-facility, requiring autonomous trucks to handle local roads, yards, and side streets in addition to highways.
Generative AI, large-scale simulation, and system generalization are positioned as key enablers that allow Waabi to move beyond the “highway trap” and support diverse road and facility types.
Waabi’s initial deployments will be executed with Volvo Autonomous Solutions, using Volvo-operated fleets to validate operations, maintenance, uptime, and ROI before broader adoption accelerates toward 2026.

MediaTek and Denso to develop SoCs for ADAS

2025-12-29 | 🔗 Go to the article

📌 MediaTek and Denso are jointly developing an automotive-grade SoC to accelerate scalable, production-ready ADAS and cockpit platforms with strong AI perception and functional safety.

MediaTek has partnered with Denso to co-develop a custom automotive system-on-chip (SoC) targeting ADAS and cockpit applications.
The jointly developed SoC is designed as a scalable, production-ready foundation for next-generation driver-assistance platforms used by global automotive OEMs.
The platform combines MediaTek’s semiconductor and AI capabilities from its Dimensity AX platform with Denso’s expertise in vehicle integration and functional safety.
Development focuses on three priorities: automotive-grade safety, AI compute and perception performance, and reduced time to market for ADAS systems.
MediaTek contributes heterogeneous computing resources, including dedicated AI and neural processing unit accelerators and advanced image signal processing for ADAS workloads.
The SoC architecture supports multi-sensor fusion across cameras, radar, and LiDAR, with vision pipelines co-designed using Denso’s automotive domain knowledge.
Pre-validated automotive IP, safety work products, reference designs, and toolchains aim to shorten development cycles and improve overall design quality.
Key technical features include functional safety mechanisms such as a safety island and lockstep processing, automotive networking (TSN, CAN FD, LIN), and multi-camera MIPI CSI-2 interfaces.

Seyond to Showcase Complete End-to-End LiDAR Portfolio and Mass-Production-Ready Solid-State LiDAR at CES 202

2025-12-31 | 🔗 Go to the article

📌 Seyond will showcase a full-spectrum, production-ready LiDAR portfolio at CES 2026, highlighted by its first mass-production solid-state LiDAR with an OEM design win.

Seyond will present its complete end-to-end LiDAR portfolio at CES 2026, covering ultra-long-range, long-range, and fully solid-state sensing for automotive, robotics, and intelligent infrastructure.
The company positions its portfolio as a single-supplier solution across the entire perception stack, reducing system integration complexity and accelerating development timelines.
Seyond highlighted flexible manufacturing and supply options, including U.S.-based production lines designed to meet BABA compliance for regulated and security-sensitive markets.
A key debut is the Hummingbird series, Seyond’s first fully solid-state LiDAR, with Hummingbird D1 targeting automotive OEMs and Hummingbird D1-R designed for robotics applications.
Hummingbird D1 is mass-production ready and has secured a world-first OEM design win, signaling readiness for large-scale deployment in passenger vehicles.
The solid-state architecture eliminates mechanical components, offering improved durability and reliability, along with a 140° × 100° field of view and high-resolution real-time 3D perception.
The Hummingbird series complements Seyond’s broader lineup, including Falcon K (ultra-long-range), Robin E1X (long-range), and Robin W (mid-range), enabling full perception coverage from a unified platform.
At CES 2026, Seyond will demonstrate live LiDAR performance and showcase an autonomous logistics delivery vehicle using Robin W, highlighting real-world deployment in last-mile and industrial autonomy.

* This edition was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor.

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