Image: Honda Motor Europe The development of advanced lidar and AI-based machine vision has received a boost after Honda Ventures invests in SiLC Technologies to develop integrated single-chip solutions. With radar and 2D or 3D vision systems finding it hard to distinguish between stationary and slow-moving objects, and even to detect dark objects (such as tires) at distances over a few hundred metres, the technology is not well suited to safe and trustworthy autonomous driving. The majority of time-of-flight lidar solutions, meanwhile, can be affected by interference...

Sony Honda Mobility Inc. (SHM) announced its new brand “AFEELA”, and unveiled a prototype as a new type of mobility, at CES® 2023 which opens to the public in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA and online from January 5, 2023 (Thursday) local time. Prior to the public unveiling, Representative Director, Chairman and CEO Yasuhide Mizuno took the stage at a press conference held on Wednesday, January 4 (local time). A summary of his speech at the press conference follows: SHM strives to become a Mobility Tech Company that will pursue inn...

June 16, 2022, Tokyo, Japan - Sony Group Corporation ("Sony") and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ("Honda") announced today that they have signed a joint venture agreement to establish a new company to engage in the sale of high-value-added electric vehicles (EVs) and provide services for mobility. Today's announcement is the furtherance and result of discussion of a strategic alliance in the mobility field between the parties as announced in the joint press release entitled "Sony and Honda Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Strategic Alliance in M...

In Honda’s latest environmental vision, Honda Motor President and CEO Takahiro Hachigo announced that the world’s largest engine manufacturer intends to cut its total company CO2 emissions by 50% by the year 2050.

After Samsung’s video of LED-equipped sheep flock to promote its new LED TVs, Honda has followed suit in the innovation with the upcoming commercial for its new Insight.