Watch: Bhopal Startup's Driverless Bolero Model Car Wows Anand Mahindra
Mahindra took to social media platform X to share his admiration, stating, ¡°Evidence of tech innovation rising across India. An engineer who¡¯s not building yet another delivery app. @sanjeevs_iitr is using complex math to target level 5 autonomy. I¡¯m cheering loudly. And certainly won¡¯t debate his choice of car!¡±
Bhopal-based startup Swaayatt Robot and Deep Eigen have been making waves with their latest innovation, catching the eye of Anand Mahindra, Chairman of the Mahindra Group. Their remarkable achievement involves converting a Mahindra Bolero into a driverless SUV using autonomous driving technology.
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Mahindra took to social media platform X to share his admiration, stating, ¡°Evidence of tech innovation rising across India. An engineer who¡¯s not building yet another delivery app. @sanjeevs_iitr is using complex math to target level 5 autonomy. I¡¯m cheering loudly. And certainly won¡¯t debate his choice of car!¡±
Sanjeev Sharma, founder and CEO of Swaayatt Robot and Deep Eigen, is the mastermind behind this feat. Sharma, who won the prestigious '51 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders Award (Global Listing)' in 2019, has been lauded for his vision and expertise in autonomous vehicle technology.
Evidence of tech innovation rising across India.
¡ª anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 2, 2024
An engineer who¡¯s not building yet another delivery app. @sanjeevs_iitr is using complex math to target level 5 autonomy.
I¡¯m cheering loudly. ??????
And certainly won¡¯t debate his choice of car! pic.twitter.com/luyJXAkQap
The showcased video demonstrates the modified Bolero navigating through various scenarios, including empty streets, pedestrian-filled areas, and heavy traffic, all without any glitches. The innovation has sparked widespread praise from netizens, with one commenting, ¡°Man!! An autonomous driverless car tested on Indian roads amidst Indian traffic condition... that¡¯s the ultimate use case test that can ever be.¡±
Another user expressed joy for Sharma's recognition, stating, ¡°happy that @sanjeevs_iitr efforts got noticed.¡± The potential global impact of the technology was also discussed, with one user suggesting, ¡°If this technology is implemented in India and is successful on Indian roads, then it can be implemented even on Mars and @elonmusk can forget Tesla FSD.¡±
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Sharma, humbled by the acknowledgment, replied, ¡°I am humbled to know that my years of mathematical research in motion planning, reinforcement learning, and decision making under uncertainty, and our cutting-edge pioneering research at @swaayatt in enabling #autonomousvehicles to negotiate extremely complex, stochastic, and adversarial traffic-dynamics and unstructured environments is being recognized, and that too by Mr @anandmahindraji!!¡±
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