Vice President Kim Jin-gyu of Kakao Mobility, who also heads the physical AI institutional sector, said the company will accelerate efforts to advance Autonomous Driving technology.
Kakao Mobility said on the 4th that Vice President Kim Jin-gyu announced plans to advance Autonomous Driving based on in-house technology at an all-hands meeting for employees held on the 30th at the Pangyo headquarters under the theme of Autonomous Driving.
Kim presented a roadmap to build a large-scale data pipeline by combining proprietary Autonomous Driving technology with the infrastructure established through the Kakao T platform, and to advance an end-to-end (E2E) core Autonomous Driving model.
In particular, the company said its goal is to secure capabilities that span the entire stack from software (SW) to hardware (HW)—including an advanced Autonomous Driving E2E model, a verification pipeline for Autonomous Driving vehicles, and an intelligent integrated safety management platform for Autonomous Driving—and to leap forward as a "physical AI corporations."
It will also strengthen external collaboration. In addition to joint development with various Autonomous Driving corporations and academia, it plans to further expand domestic Autonomous Driving partnerships that have continued steadily since 2020 and build an "open ecosystem."
Vice President Kim Jin-gyu said, "I believe Kakao Mobility is one of the corporations with the high-level technology needed to reliably deliver real passenger transport services in the complex Gangnam urban core," adding, "We will further advance the 'planner,' the key element responsible for decision-making in Autonomous Driving vehicles, through high-quality data and sequentially apply it to services in the Gangnam area."
Kim added, "Based on the Kakao T platform's data and technological capabilities, we will add new technical value called physical AI to lead new Mobility Innovation."