UK's Oxbotica and Google Cloud Team up to Accelerate Autonomous Driving

Oxbotica, the British-based autonomous vehicle (AV) software developer, has announced a new strategic collaboration with Google Cloud that will help accelerate the deployment of its autonomous software platform to customers around the world. The partnership will combine Google Cloud's expertise in cloud infrastructure with Oxbotica's AV software to create scalable, safe, and reliable autonomous driving solutions for any business with transportation in its value chain.

These businesses include last-mile logistics, light industry, and public transport.

Oxbotica plans to use Google Cloud products—compute, storage, networking, and leading data and analytics products like Vertex AI—to help develop, test, validate, and verify its self-driving technology.

It will also leverage Google Cloud's proven cyber-security technologies to help ensure secure use of autonomous mobility technology.]

It will use Google Cloud to generate digital twins in Oxbotica's MetaDriver, an AI-powered metaverse that connects and controls virtual and physical fleets together, sending real-time analytics on performance.

Oxbotica's MetaDriver automatically generates a vast bank of virtual scenarios to help ensure the safety of AVs.

Gavin Jackson, CEO of Oxbotica, says: "We are thrilled to partner with Google Cloud to accelerate bringing autonomous driving solutions to market globally. Google Cloud is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and using its cutting-edge technology and AI powered tools will strengthen our proposition for our customers." 

"The combination of Oxbotica's leading technology and our reliable infrastructure and AI and data-enabled cloud platform has the potential to accelerate autonomous mobility in a variety of industrial use cases," adds Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. "From last mile logistics to public transportation, we look forward to working together to positively impact the lives of end users." 

From the virtual testing environment, to the software driving the vehicles and the cloud-based management tools, Oxbotica helps any business with transportation in its value chain get the most from their fleets.