Sumitomo Rubber Industries has announced that its proprietary sensing technology, Sensing Core, has been adopted for the first time by a Japanese auto maker.

Isuzu Motors has selected the technology, which is designed to detect the condition of tires, vehicles and road surfaces, for its new Giga heavy-duty truck, with Sensing Core’s wheel detachment prediction detection system coming as standard in the October 2025 updated version of the vehicle.

Sensing Core technology

Sensing Core is a software technology that analyzes wheel speed data generated by tire rotation, together with CAN data (vehicle control information) transmitted through the vehicle’s control system, to detect various tire and road conditions, including tire pressure, tire wear, tire load and signs of potential wheel detachment.

Continue reading Sumitomo Sensing Core wheel detachment prediction system fitted as standard on new Isuzu Giga truck at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

David Keene, the founder of Aurrigo International, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to the ‘decarbonization of airports’, after over 40 years of experience working in the automotive sector and developing autonomous technology and intelligent mobility in aviation. Keene has been named in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025.

Autonomous luggage operations

The Warwickshire-based entrepreneur was recognized for the launch of Auto-DollyTug – an autonomous vehicle that is moving luggage and cargo around six airports across the world. Designed, developed and built at the firm’s Advanced Engineering Centre in Coventry, the electric powered tugs promise to “cut emissions, increase operational performance and, most importantly, improve passenger experience,” Aurrigo says.

Continue reading Aurrigo founder David Keene receives MBE for the decarbonization of airports at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

It has been 35 years since the Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) opened in the UK. Initially it was a small outbuilding on the company’s production site in Sunderland, but after moving to a facility in Cranfield the NTCE has expanded to become one of Nissan’s major global R&D facilities with 1,000 employees.

One of the focus areas at the site is autonomous driving and following the company’s initial involvement in the HumanDrive and ServCity projects, the latest to use its battery-electric Leaf is EvolvAD.

With funding from the UK government through its Innovate UK agency and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), the EvolvAD project is being run by a consortium of industry partners.

Continue reading Nissan-backed EvolvAD autonomous mobility research project launches at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Supplier of Enterprise First networking over private and public mobile networks Expeto has revealed its next level of visibility and control for connected vehicles managed via enterprise mobile networks.

The solution, called Connected Vehicles, is available on the Expeto NeXtworking Platform as a Service, and delivers granular visibility and control essential for next-generation connected car, autonomous vehicle and advanced logistics applications. Automotive OEMs will be able to manage software defined fleets via public networks as an extension of their own private networks.

“Vehicles today are essentially a rolling edge server with hundreds of individual sub-systems,” said Brian Anderson, vice president of product at Expeto.

Continue reading Expeto enhances connected vehicle network control and visibility at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

At this week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, Southern California-based Karma Group presented its five-prong strategy for growing long-term brand value, through a combination of retail sales, partnerships, investments, and licensing its engineering, design, customization and contract manufacturing resources.

Karma’s path forward will comprise two vehicle platforms, two core technologies and five intelligent technology ecosystems. One of the ecosystems is Karma Drive, which covers passive, active and intelligent safety features and growing autonomous technologies.

“Karma is more than just a car company,” said Karma CEO Dr Lance Zhou. “Karma is a high-tech incubator, and a supplier to others who need our engineering, design, customization and manufacturing resources to speed their product development or make use of our ability to apply luxury touches.”

The other technology ecosystems are Karma Skateboard (a modular platform for BEV and EREV propulsion systems), Cockpit (an immersive and personalized traveling environment), CarNet (5G connected vehicles) and Cloud (cloud computing, data integration, analytics and AI).

Continue reading Connected and autonomous tech part of Karma Group strategy at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Hyundai Motor Group has established MoceanLab, a mobility service venture, as part of the Group’s larger initiative to create a sustainable, connected future. MoceanLab will provide mobility services in Los Angeles and expand its services to autonomous ride sharing, shuttling, multimodal transportation, and personal mobility.

The opportunities posed by LA’s large and diverse population, challenges with traffic congestion and demonstrated commitments to transportation innovation and sustainability, including LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s initiatives and leadership, made it the ideal city for MoceanLab.

Hyundai Motor Group plans to explore and integrate new mobility innovations – such as micromobility and multimodal transportation – and ensure the effectiveness and growth of mobility services throughout LA.

Continue reading Hyundai launches MoceanLab future mobility venture in LA at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

A new study, led by researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics in collaboration with Waterloo’s Games Institute, details three games created for Level 3 and higher semi-autonomous vehicles. The researchers in Canada also made suggestions for many exciting types of in-car games for future exploration.

“As autonomous vehicles start to replace conventional vehicles, occupants will have much more free time than they used to,” said Matthew Lakier, a PhD student in Waterloo’s David R Cheriton School of Computer Science. “You could use time spent in commute to read a book, watch a movie, get ahead on work, or browse the internet.

Continue reading Researchers bring gaming to autonomous vehicles at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Wayve, a startup dedicated to accelerating autonomous mobility through learning-based approaches instead of hand-coded rules, has secured a US$20m Series A funding round to launch a pilot fleet of autonomous vehicles in central London.

The investment was led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital and existing investors Compound, Fly Ventures and FirstMinute Capital as well as several undisclosed, preeminent leaders in machine learning and robotics.

Wayve believes that the complexity of self-driving cars will be solved by better artificial intelligence ‘brains,’ not by more physical sensors and hand-coded rules. Launched in Cambridge, UK – arguably the birthplace of modern computing and artificial intelligence – and recently relocated to London, Wayve is the first European self-driving car company to attract premier Silicon Valley venture capital funding to lead a Series A investment.

Continue reading Wayve unveils self-driving car trials in central London at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Artificial perception specialist AEye has announced what’s claimed to be the world’s first commercially available, 2D/3D perception system designed to run in the sensors of autonomous vehicles.

For the first time, basic perception can be distributed to the edge of the sensor network. This enables autonomous designers to use sensors to not only search and detect objects, but also to acquire, and ultimately to classify and track these objects. AEye adds that the ability to collect this information in real time both enables and enhances existing centralized perception software platforms by reducing latency, lowering costs and securing functional safety.

Continue reading AEye announces first perception software to run inside AV sensors at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

With the launch of Alpha Prime, Velodyne Lidar says it now delivers the optimal long-range sensor for autonomous mobility. This state-of-the-art sensor is said to generate high-quality perception in a wide variety of light conditions, with advanced sensor-to-sensor interference mitigation, power efficiency and thermal performance.

Providing long-range detection of low reflectance objects, the Alpha Prime enables autonomous operation within a broad range of settings, including urban and highway environments. Velodyne further describes it as a culmination of more than a decade of experience in engineering and manufacturing lidar, enabling the Alpha Prime to power safe autonomy.

Key features of the horizontal (360°) and vertical (40°) long-range sensor include high resolution (0.2° x 0.1°) and point density at full frame rate; proprietary sensor-to-sensor interference mitigation; strong performance with retro reflectors and sunlight; and new power efficiencies for maximum operating temperature.

Continue reading Velodyne unveils advanced Alpha Prime lidar sensor at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.