StreetDrone is releasing its new Xenos hardware and software platform, which aims to make any vehicle safely ready for autonomous technology by offering a universal enabler between ‘dumb’ hardware and AV applications, much like Android did for mobile phones.

The company wants to follow the example of Google Android, which made it easy for handset makers to allow their hardware to run the latest third-party applications. Xenos offers a combination of software and hardware that allows different vehicle controllers to communicate with autonomous applications (including AI, self-driving software stacks and remote mission control).

“We’ve been building and testing the on-vehicle version of Xenos for 18 months, built it into the StreetDrone ONE [the company’s Renault Twizy-based AV testbed] and connected various self-driving applications to make it safely autonomous-ready,” said Mike Potts, founder and CEO of StreetDrone.

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