News: Autonomous Trucks - NuPort Selects NVIDIA DRIVE Platform


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News: Autonomous Trucks - NuPort Selects NVIDIA DRIVE PlatformDear Larry, Autonomous truck tech solution provider NuPort Robotics https://www.nuport.ai/ today announces that it has selected the NVIDIA DRIVE platform to power its middle-mile semi-truck transportation solutions. See release below: NuPort Robotics Selects NVIDIA DRIVE Platform for Autonomous Trucks NuPort will use NVIDIA AI compute platform for middle-mile autonomous semi-truck operation June 8, 2021 - Toronto - NuPort Robotics Inc., a leading Canada-based autonomous trucking company, today announced that it has selected the NVIDIA DRIVE platform to power its middle-mile semi-truck transportation solutions, which will be capable of safely operating in all weather conditions. The company plans to develop upcoming generations of its autonomous trucking platform on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, which is capable of more than 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS). "Selecting the NVIDIA DRIVE platform gives NuPort the scalable computational horsepower to design and test sophisticated AI essential for safe autonomous trucks." The pilot leverages the NVIDIA DRIVE platform as the in-vehicle computer controlling the autonomous systems for Level 4 autonomy.