Volvo Expands Nvidia Partnership for Future Automated Driving Systems

Volvo Cars is expanding its Nvidia partnership to build an automated-driving system for a future vehicle, pairing the automaker’s safety engineering with Nvidia hardware and software.

The planned setup brings Volvo’s vehicle safety systems and engineering together with Nvidia’s Hyperion sensor and compute architecture. It also includes the Alpamayo driving software stack and Halos safety evaluation layer. Volvo is targeting city and highway driving.

The companies have worked together for nearly a decade. Volvo’s battery-electric lineup already uses Nvidia’s Orin computer, which processes camera, radar and other sensor data to inform driving decisions.

Volvo plans to put the expanded system in a new vehicle, but has not named the model or disclosed the partnership’s value. Alwin Bakkenes, Volvo’s head of software development, said the company plans to standardize more of its sensor configuration around Hyperion to support the wider Nvidia collaboration.

Bakkenes said the first vehicle with the system will debut within the decade.