The next generation of fully autonomous driving: Munich-based start-up driveblocks receives €2.2 million in seed funding

Technology start-up driveblocks, a software specialist for fully autonomous driving of commercial vehicles, has closed a 2.2 million euro seed round led by Rethink Ventures and Bayern Kapital. Angel investor Joachim Drees (former CEO of MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus SE) and existing investor Friedrich & Wagner Holding also provided fresh capital. The founding team intends to use the funds primarily for the further development of driveblocks’ core technology: the Mapless Autonomy Platform.

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The next generation of fully autonomous driving: Munich-based start-up driveblocks receives €2.2 million in seed funding

2023-09-08

Technology start-up driveblocks, a software specialist for fully autonomous driving of commercial vehicles, has closed a 2.2 million euro seed round led by Rethink Ventures and Bayern Kapital. Angel investor Joachim Drees (former CEO of MAN SE and MAN Truck & Bus SE) and existing investor Friedrich & Wagner Holding also provided fresh capital. The founding team intends to use the funds primarily for the further development of driveblocks’ core technology: the Mapless Autonomy Platform.

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Innovusion and driveblocks Offer Pre-integrated LiDAR Perception Solution to Accelerate Commercial Vehicle Automation

2023-09-21

Innovusion, a global frontrunner in high precision and resolution LiDAR sensor technology, and driveblocks, a pioneer in AI-based perception and sensor-fusion for mapless autonomous driving, have joined forces. The objective: To speed up commercial vehicle automation by providing a robust and integrated solution designed for a diverse range of environments, including agriculture, container yards, and highways.

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Transformers and explainable sensor-fusion are the key technologies behind the Mapless Autonomy Platform

2023-07-03

The Mapless Autonomy Platform leverages transformer neural networks in conjunction with a geometrically-interpretable sensor-fusion to combine the advantages of state-of-the-art deep learning approaches with explainable sensor-fusion.

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Enhancing Object Detection Capabilities of the Mapless Autonomy Platform with version 2023.03

2023-06-19

The Mapless Autonomy Software Platform receives several feature updates, mainly focused on enhanced the object detection capabilities and data management workflow for deep learning applications.

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driveblocks Mapless Autonomy Platform receives major feature updates with new 2023.02 version

2023-04-12

The Mapless Autonomy Platform is updated with various new features and improvements with a large focus on perception and sensor-fusion components. These additions can be applied within highway as well as off-road scenarios and boost the sensor-based environment model capabilities significantly.

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The emergence of an ecosystem of software components for autonomous driving around ROS 2

2023-01-27

The driveblocks mapless autonomy stack can be combined with various software components of the ROS 2 ecosystem. Learn more about this integration!

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driveblocks presents new release of Mapless Autonomy Platform at CES®

2022-12-31

driveblocks releases the next version of its modular Mapless Autonomy Platform with algorithms for highly automated and autonomous driving of commercial vehicles at CES® in Las Vegas. New features have proven their capabilities already within real-world tests on German highways.

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Fast reaction times – why end-to-end latency matters in autonomous driving

2022-11-28

Learn why the minimization of end-to-end latency is important to achieve safe autonomous driving capabilities for commercial vehicles and what is done in the driveblocks mapless autonomy stack to achieve this.

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driveblocks returns to CES® 2023!

2022-11-23

driveblocks returns to the CES® 2023 in Las Vegas, from January 5th to 8th! Step by at our booth (#10175, North Hall) to see the latest release of our ready-to-drive autonomy platform!

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driveblocks at EclipseCon 2022 - How Open-Source Boosts Autonomous Vehicle Development

2022-11-14

Our CTO, Alexander Wischnewski, joined the speaker line-up at the EclipseCon 2022 to share insights on our view on the utilization of open-source software projects in autonomous driving.

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Beyond centimeter precise high-definition maps – sensor-based environment models for the next generation of autonomous driving systems

2022-10-17

The driveblocks autonomy SDK provides solutions to overcome the challenges posed by high-definition maps. Learn more about the flexible multi-sensor approach to road model detection and why it generalizes well to different situations.

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Visit us at the IAA Transportation 2022!

2022-09-16

We will launch the first release of our ready-to-drive autonomy platform to enable the software-defined future of the commercial vehicle industry.

driveblocks: Hall 13, Booth C202

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Working towards an open ecosystem in autonomous driving – together with Sprin-D

2022-09-12

Autonomous driving is one of the most complex technological challenges of the current decade and likely to be a game changer to the mobility industry. Despite impressive technological progress in recent years, it will still take significant innovations until fully autonomous vehicles reach public roads on a large scale.

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Automation for zero-emission commercial vehicles – pepper and driveblocks develop self-driving truck prototype

2022-09-12

The two mobility companies pepper and driveblocks are working together on the future of the commercial vehicle industry

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