On January 28, Valens Semiconductor announced the implementation of an operational efficiency plan designed to sharpen the focus on areas of business with the strongest momentum, while maintaining a strong financial position. Valens plans to reduce its workforce by approximately 10% across various departments. It wil

On January 27, VinFast partnered with Autobrains, an AI innovator in the automotive sector, to develop Level 2++ autonomous driving technology and a new autonomous vehicle architecture. The architecture is designed to enable nearly any vehicle to be converted into a self-driving “robo-car.”
The partnership focuses o

On January 20, Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Eye-Net Mobile Ltd., has advanced its strategic collaboration in Japan with SoftBank Corp. to further validate Eye-Net’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) collision prediction and prevention solutions technology.
The joint initi

On January 13, Upstream Security, Israel, announced its strategic partnership with Škoda to strengthen cybersecurity across the automaker’s connected vehicles, digital services, and internal systems. Through the partnership, Škoda brings all cyber threat data, risk insights, and signals into one shared platform. This

On January 5, Kardome introduced Cognition AI, a breakthrough technology designed to make on-device voice interfaces truly intelligent and bring natural voice interaction. Cognition AI, combined with Spatial Hearing AI, serves as the core engine powering Kardome’s next-generation on-device voice AI solutions. 
It ena

On January 7, Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Eye-Net Mobile Ltd. will participate in CES 2026 and present its commercially-ready vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) collision prevention technology.
By leveraging existing cellular infrastructure, Eye-Net’s proprietary V2X co

On January 7, Innoviz Technologies Ltd. announced a partnership with Vueron Technology Co. Ltd., a leader in AI-powered LiDAR perception solutions. Under the collaboration, LiDAR data from InnovizTwo and InnovizSMART has been integrated into Vueron’s VueX AI development platform, enabling automotive manufacturers to

On January 7, Mobileye announced a definitive agreement to acquire Mentee Robotics, an AI-first humanoid robotics company, in a move that expands Mobileye’s focus from autonomous driving into broader Physical AI. The USD 900 million deal (cash plus stock), expected to close in Q1 2026, brings together Mobileye’s glob

On January 6, Valens Semiconductor announced a new design win for its VA7000 MIPI A-PHY-compliant chipsets, which will be integrated into the ADAS systems of a premium global automotive OEM serving the Chinese market.
The announcement brings Valens to four A-PHY design wins globally. The carmaker will integrate the V

On January 6, Innoviz Technologies Ltd. announced the first fully colored long-range LiDAR with an integrated camera in its InnovizThree LiDAR. The compact sensor-fusion module combines LiDAR and RGB sensing in a single unit.
InnovizThree is 60% smaller than InnovizTwo and includes RGB capabilities in its compact de

On January 5, Valens Semiconductor and Sakae Riken Kogyo Co., Ltd announced the automotive market's first production-ready MIPI A-PHY-enabled e-mirror. It integrates the Valens VA7000 chipset. At CES 2026, Valens will display the Sakae Riken A-PHY e-mirror. 
Leveraging an A-PHY camera from Japanese vendor Nippon Chem

On January 5, Arbe Robotics Ltd. announced that it is combining its radar technology with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing to enable AI-based perception for hands-off and eyes-off driving. The company will showcase its automotive-grade radar system at CES 2026.
The automotive-grade radar offers high detection detail, g

On January 5 in Las Vegas, Mobileye announced that a U.S.-based OEM has chosen the Mobileye EyeQ 6H to power future advanced driver assistance systems with hands-free driving on select highways across millions of vehicles worldwide. Surround ADAS brings the latest advancements in AI, a suite of multiple cameras and m

On December 29, Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. announced that it was invited by Audi AG to participate in the Audi startup event “Minds and Makers”, organized by its partnering team. Foresight was selected to demonstrate its terrain intelligence solution. The solution provides real-time 3D analysis of various ter

On December 29, Arbe Robotics Ltd. announced that a China-based state-owned automaker has selected Hirain Technologies together with Arbe’s Ultra HD Radar for its Level 4 autonomous vehicle program.
Hirain’s LRR610 radar, powered by Arbe’s chipset, was chosen for the automaker’s Level 4 program. The vehicles are sch

On December 29, REE Automotive Ltd., an automotive technology company that develops software-defined vehicle (SDV) technology solutions, announced a strategic non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Cascadia Motion, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of BorgWarner Inc. The MOU outlines cooperation across manufacturi

On December 23, Imagry announced a strategic partnership with eVersum, a specialist in high-tech engineering and manufacturing of electric buses. They will integrate Imagry’s field-proven AI-based autonomous driving technology into M3-category right- and left-hand drive (RHD/LHD) electric buses. The fully integrated

On December 24, Lidwave, in a social media post, announced that it will present Odem, the world’s first 4D LiDAR-on-a-chip, at CES 2026. Odem delivers a new level of performance and reliability by integrating the complete optical head on a single silicon photonics chip and enabling true 4D perception with velocity pe

On December 22, Beamr Imaging Ltd. announced benchmark testing results validating that its patented Content-Adaptive Bitrate (CABR) technology delivers up to 50% storage reduction for autonomous vehicle (AV) video data with a comprehensive technical demonstration of machine learning (ML) model accuracy.
The benchmark

On December 23, Imagry announced that it will launch a pilot to evaluate the operational feasibility of Imagry’s bus autonomous system in Japan, in partnership with Toyota Tsusho Corporation. Once successful, this fully integrated bus platform will be offered by Imagry to public transportation operators (PTO) and mun