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 – Torquea pioneer in commercializing self-driving class 8 vehicles, as we speak 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 actual (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 selections about lane adjustments, braking, and impediment avoidance to make sure secure and environment friendly autonomous driving operations and is the primary deployment of bodily AI for autonomous long-haul trucking at manufacturing scale.
Torc collaborated intently 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 geared up 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 yr.
NVIDIA DRIVE options, paired with Flex’s automotive compute design capabilities, adhere to Torc’s stringent dimension, efficiency, price, and reliability necessities whereas assembly the full price of possession targets of its fleet clients who’re pursuing continuous, long-haul driverless trucking integration. This work offers a real Software program Outlined Automobile (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 circumstances, and extra.
“NVIDIA DRIVE AGX has been industry-proven in full manufacturing for automotive real-time functions on the edge. It delivers the excessive compute efficiency, low latency, and multi-sensor connectivity wanted for Torc’s subtle autonomous trucking software program, delivering strong notion, prediction, and planning for secure and dependable operation,” stated Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA. “Torc is on a transparent path to scalable manufacturing for its business 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 complete ecosystem to allow mobility corporations to launch next-generation expertise with better resilience and pace,” stated Mike Thoeny, President, Automotive, Flex. “We recognize 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 secure and confirmed basis for Torc’s autonomous car expertise,” stated 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 answer 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 worldwide chief and pioneer in trucking. Based in 2005 on the delivery of the self-driving car revolution, Torc has practically 20 years of expertise in pioneering safety-critical, self-driving functions. Torc presents a whole self-driving car software program and integration answer and is at present specializing in commercializing autonomous vehicles for long-haul functions within the U.S. Along with its Blacksburg headquarters and engineering workplaces 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 benefit from 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 answer, we empower distinctive staff, ship a targeted, hub-to-hub autonomous truck product, and supply our clients with the most secure, most dependable, and cost-efficient answer to the market.
