"Yandex" will implement artificial intelligence in KamAZ trucks

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• Auto pilot (unmanned vehicle)
• Artificial intelligence (AI, Artificial intelligence, AI)

2016

In Russia the pilotless minibus is developed

The vehicle under the name "Shatl" was provided on the International motor Moscow show. Works on the project were conducted by NAMI research center with assistance of "Yandex" and "KamAZ". The bus is expected 12 passengers and does not assume presence of the driver – in the machine there is no place for it. Shatl works on the electric motor, one charging can there will be enough for 200 kilometers of the movement^[1].

The bus is equipped with surveillance cameras and different sensors. It is interesting that the way which follows Shatl is not programmed in advance – the bus is capable to lay a route in real time. So, the user using the smartphone and a special application will be able to set an appointment point and also by a call of Shatl will define in what mode to work the vehicle – collective as the bus, or individual as the taxi.

Due to the lack of precepts of law on use of pilotless vehicles in Russia, at first Shatl will be used on the closed objects. It is expected that operation of buses will begin in 2018.

"Yandex" will implement artificial intelligence in KamAZ trucks

Specialists of Yandex Company and PJSC KAMAZ signed in the summer of 2016 the agreement on cooperation which assumes equipment of cars of the Kama automobile works the systems of artificial intelligence, the press service of "Yandex" reports.

Joint work will be conducted in several directions. In particular, it is about adaptation of services for lorries and implementation of voice actuation of the multimedia system of the car. Besides, such artificial intelligence technologies of "Yandex" as computer vision, machine learning and speech technologies, will become a basis for a possibility of semiautonomous driving. Serial production is going to begin in 2025.

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