The platform leverages NVIDIA DRIVE AGX with Flex’s Jupiter compute platform and manufacturing capabilities to help Torc’s productization and scaled market entry in 2027
BLACKSBURG, Va – March 18, 2025 – Torc, a pioneer in commercializing self-driving class 8 vehicles, at the moment introduced its collaboration with Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX), a world-class supplier of automotive-grade compute platforms, and NVIDIA to develop a scalable bodily AI compute system for autonomous vehicles.
The bodily AI developed at Torc allows self-driving vehicles to understand, perceive, and carry out complicated actions in the true (bodily) world. For Torc, bodily AI is the core of its software program stack that permits vehicles to autonomously understand and navigate their environment end-to-end and in real-time utilizing sensors like lidar, radar, and cameras. This permits the truck to make knowledgeable choices about lane modifications, braking, and impediment avoidance to make sure protected and environment friendly autonomous driving operations and is the primary deployment of bodily AI for autonomous long-haul trucking at manufacturing scale.
Torc collaborated carefully with NVIDIA on a multi-chip adaptable structure that leverages DRIVE AGX utilizing the DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) and DriveOS working system, and with Flex for his or her Jupiter compute design platform and superior manufacturing capabilities. This offers Torc with a scalable high-performance manufacturing {hardware} and software program platform based mostly on the autonomous-ready Freightliner Cascadia outfitted with superior applied sciences and redundant techniques designed to help future deployment of autonomous driving capabilities. This platform was efficiently validated by Torc’s driverless product acceptance check on a closed course at freeway speeds final 12 months.
NVIDIA DRIVE options, paired with Flex’s automotive compute design capabilities, adhere to Torc’s stringent dimension, efficiency, value, and reliability necessities whereas assembly the entire value of possession targets of its fleet clients who’re pursuing continuous, long-haul driverless trucking integration. This work offers a real Software program Outlined Car (SDV) performance: it’s adaptable to ever altering operational design domains, together with new lanes, new routes, new hubs, new {hardware} and sensor configurations, new operational guidelines, new street situations, and extra.
“NVIDIA DRIVE AGX has been industry-proven in full manufacturing for automotive real-time purposes on the edge. It delivers the excessive compute efficiency, low latency, and multi-sensor connectivity wanted for Torc’s refined autonomous trucking software program, delivering strong notion, prediction, and planning for protected and dependable operation,” mentioned Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA. “Torc is on a transparent path to scalable manufacturing for its industrial launch in 2027 and dealing towards a seamless improve to NVIDIA DRIVE AGX with DRIVE Thor.”
“Our collaboration with Torc, Daimler Truck, and NVIDIA illustrates how Flex companions throughout the total ecosystem to allow mobility firms to launch next-generation expertise with higher resilience and pace,” mentioned Mike Thoeny, President, Automotive, Flex. “We respect the belief Torc and Daimler Truck have positioned in Flex by means of leveraging our Jupiter compute platform and superior manufacturing capabilities to ship autonomous long-haul trucking at scale.”
“Utilizing Daimler Truck’s autonomous Freightliner Cascadias with built-in redundancy, our work with NVIDIA and Flex is already offering a steady and confirmed basis for Torc’s autonomous car expertise,” mentioned Torc’s CEO, Peter Vaughan Schmidt, “By leveraging NVIDIA’s DRIVE AGX in-vehicle compute and DriveOS, together with Flex’s Jupiter compute platform, we’re in a position to make sure a low-risk, high-confidence path to manufacturing that is ready to seamlessly transition as NVIDIA’s and Flex’s options proceed to evolve.”
Together with Flex, Torc will showcase the superior capabilities of the joint resolution on its demo truck at NVIDIA’s upcoming GTC occasion from March 17-21, 2025, in San Jose, CA.
About Torc
Torc, headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, is an impartial subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, a world chief and pioneer in trucking. Based in 2005 on the start of the self-driving car revolution, Torc has practically 20 years of expertise in pioneering safety-critical, self-driving purposes. Torc provides an entire self-driving car software program and integration resolution and is presently specializing in commercializing autonomous vehicles for long-haul purposes within the U.S. Along with its Blacksburg headquarters and engineering places of work in Austin, Texas, and Montreal, Canada, Torc has a fleet operations facility within the Dallas-Fort Price space in Texas, to help the corporate’s productization and commercialization efforts, in addition to a presence in Ann Arbor, MI, to reap the benefits of the autonomous and automotive expertise base in that area. Torc’s objective is driving the way forward for freight with autonomous expertise. Because the world’s main autonomous trucking resolution, we empower distinctive staff, ship a centered, hub-to-hub autonomous truck product, and supply our clients with the most secure, most dependable, and cost-efficient resolution to the market.
