In the smartphone era, Google’s Android and Qualcom chips is a powerful solution for many hardware makers.
Nvidia looks to resemble that status alone in self-driving, with this announcement. The Alpamayo + Thor combo provide self-driving software + chip for cars.
More than that, it looks that Nvidia might also do that in robots.
Obviously, Tesla would be the Apple of this era.
Btw, Nvidia’s evaluation data set includes lidar data https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/PhysicalAI-Autonomous-Vehicles-NuRec
This dataset has a total of 1727 hours of driving recorded from planned data-collection drives in 25 countries and 2500+ cities. The data captures diverse traffic, weather conditions, obstacles, and pedestrians in the environment. It consists of 310,895 clips that are each 20 seconds long. The sensor data includes multi-camera and LiDAR coverage for all clips, and radar coverage for 163,850 clips.