At CES 2022, Baidu and Jidu jointly announced that Jidu’s first mass-produced model will be equipped with NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoC (system-on-chip). The mass production model is expected to be launched in 2023 and will become a car robot with L4 autonomous driving capabilities. At the same time, the concept car of this product will be officially unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year.
At Baidu Create 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) held on December 27, 2021, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said that Jidu The automobile robot runs through the three major product concepts of "free movement, natural communication, and self-growth". First, the car robot has L4-level autonomous driving capabilities and can move freely; second, accurate recognition of human-vehicle interaction and speech semantics allows cars and people to "communicate naturally", understand user emotions, and respond to user needs in real time; third Third, automobile robots can learn and iterate on their own according to the user’s usage habits to continuously optimize the autonomous driving and smart cockpit experience and achieve “self-growth.”
Among them, “free movement” refers to L4 level autonomous driving capability, which is supported by the leading intelligent driving system. The system covers all-area autonomous driving scenarios and provides industry-leading, safe and reliable autonomous driving functions on high-speed and urban open roads. Jidu’s intelligent driving system is provided by Baidu’s autonomous driving computing platform and NVIDIA DRIVE Orin’s hardware and computing power, while its software and algorithms are jointly developed by Jidu and Baidu.
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin is specially designed for software-defined cars, and can achieve continuous upgrades of autonomous driving capabilities throughout the entire life cycle of the car through OTA software updates. It can achieve 254 TOPS of computing performance and can provide computing power support for autonomous driving functions, confidence views, digital clusters, in-vehicle infotainment, and passenger-AI interaction. DRIVE Orin is scheduled to be installed on production vehicles from automakers and truck manufacturers later this year.
Editor: Du Yu