NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Platform Global Expansion Powers L4 Autonomous Robotaxis and Strategic Mobility Partnerships with Foxconn Uber and VinFast Worldwide
NVIDIA announces significant expansion of the DRIVE Hyperion platform, the company's intelligent driving solution for the global automotive industry. The program is part of NVIDIA's global rollout to help a wider variety of automakers, contract manufacturers, software partners and ride hailing companies to build autonomous vehicles, including L4 ready robotaxis. The global transportation system can benefit from a standardized, safety certified platform that supports L4 driving, according to the NVIDIA ecosystem announcement. The core of the DRIVE Hyperion platform includes a high performance compute engine integrated into the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX car computer, running an AI based NVIDIA Halos operating system with a safety certified DRIVEOS layer underneath. A multimodal sensor set and tailored autonomous vehicle software permit physical AI that sees, understands and operates in all conditions.
"The autonomous mobility market is moving into its industrial scaling phase. Vehicles are becoming robots, and robotaxi fleets will need the AI infrastructure that sees, understands and operates safely in the real world. NVIDIA's platform offers the auto industry a shared foundation to take autonomous cars from contained pilot programs to an everyday part of our transportation infrastructure worldwide." Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and CEO, said.
NVIDIA will enhance its manufacturing and design partnership with Foxconn to build L4 ready robotaxis using DRIVE Hyperion. Foxconn will accelerate its manufacturing efforts for L4 electric robotaxis, with initial rollout in Taiwan; the industrial city of Kaohsiung will serve as the pilot area where a commercial robotaxi service is planned for 2028, initially for airport to city transit corridors and then for routes connected to high speed rail.
"Autonomous mobility is an important priority for Foxconn EV initiative. Through the use of strategic partnerships and NVIDIA technology we are accelerating the L4 robotaxi system development and deployment. With NVIDIA's technology, we can provide the necessary high performance computing and sensor integration for municipal widespread use". Said Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn.
In Southeast Asia, Vietnamese carmaker VinFast is joining forces with autonomous software company Autobrains to deploy the DRIVE Hyperion platform in the regional transportation network. The new partnership will allow these companies to create transit solutions that are equipped with AI drivers to navigate the challenging urban environments in the region.
In Europe and the Middle East NVIDIA's expansion will come through a collaboration with Uber to test an Autobrains specialized robotaxi program in Munich; this will run on the NVIDIA computing platform and utilize Autobrains' reasoning based driving intelligence software. The two companies hope to scale autonomous ride hailing through the deployment of agnostic technology across Uber's ride hailing network.
In the Middle East, mobility group HUMAIN is working with NVIDIA to build the AI native infrastructure required to deploy a L4 ready autonomous transit system in Saudi Arabia to integrate physical transit systems and digital AI in a safe and sustainable urban transit ecosystem for the future.
