博世购买英国无人驾驶汽车software startup Five

Bosch is to buy Five, Europe’s leading startup for driverless cars for an undisclosed sum

Five employs 140 associates at six locations in the United Kingdom and has raised over $78m in funding according to Crunchbase. Bosch says Five gave it preference over other takeover bidders. Five signed a deal in January with Cognata, a partner of ZF, on verification technology.

The two software teams and engineering environments will be merged to form a single solution within the Bosch Cross-Domain Computing Solutions division.

Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Stan Boland, Five has developed expertise in cloud software, safety assurance, robotics and machine learning for autonomous driving to SAE Level 4. Following trials in London in 2019, it now focuses primarily on a cloud-based development and testing platform for the software used in self-driving cars.

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This gives engineers the environment to create automated driving software and to test it before and during its deployment in test vehicles. The platform is able to analyze real data from a fleet of test vehicles, create advanced testing scenarios, and build a simulation environment that makes it possible to assess and validate system behaviour at hyper-scale.

这笔交易遵循Atlatec GmbH的收购,a specialist in the field of high-resolution digital maps and means Bosch will be the only company to offer all the building blocks of automated driving from a single source, from actuators, sensors, and maps to software and the engineering environment.