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.

driveblocks releases a new revision of its core product, the Mapless Autonomy Platform. The release improves its ability to operate in industrial vehicle settings such as construction and agriculture. In addition, the new software release supports customers in understanding the performance for their respective use-case in detail and identify improvement potentials.

driveblocks, a technology company providing perception software for mapless autonomous driving, rolls out an updated version of its core product, the Mapless Autonomy Platform with major improvements with respect to embedded deployments.

Transformer neural networks leverage context information via attention-mechanisms. Learn more about how we leverage this to improve edge-case performance in the Mapless Autonomy Platform.

We are excited to announce our partnership with Apex.AI! We have pre-integrated the Mapless Autonomy Platform with the safety-certified framework Apex.Grace and can now offer a ready to deploy solution to joint customers and development partners.

driveblocks, a technology company providing perception software for mapless autonomous driving, releases a revamped version of its Mapless Autonomy Platform. The key update is a new backend for the core sensor-fusion algorithm.