Draft:Autobrains

• Comment: Per comment by Chaotic Enby - Rich^T|C|E-Mail 20:48, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Lots of promo-ish wording that should be removed, like "this marked a significant milestone in the company’s commercial rollout and global expansion", or "announced a strategic collaboration". Make sure the sourcing you use is secondary and independent, press releases should not be used. A list of media coverage isn't needed, instead, you should use the content of these publications to write the article itself (again, only if they are independent). Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:13, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

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Autobrains Technologies Ltd. (commonly known as Autobrains) is an Israeli startup company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) software for autonomous vehicles. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company has additional sites in Munich, Germany, the United States and China, and it is actively testing and operating in France, India and Vietnam.

The company was founded in 2019 under the name Cartica AI by current CEO Igal Raichelgauz as a spin-off from the AI powerhouse Cortica Ltd. Cartica AI was later rebranded to Autobrains to better reflect its focus on leveraging cognitive machine learning to develop automotive solutions that learn and react like the human brain does.

Autobrains is backed by partner companies Toyota, BMW, Knorr-Bremse, VinFast, and Continental and other leading players in the automotive market. The chairman of the company is Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, former CEO of Continental, Opel and Volkswagen China.

The company’s mission is to develop affordable autonomous-driving technology and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) based on AI. Autobrains software can receive data from a variety of sensors – including camera, radar and lidar – and categorizes objects into “signatures” based on common elements through its unique selflearning approach; the system can then be trained by automakers to respond and react appropriately to those signatures. Autobrains says that its signature-based, self-learning approach makes the technology scalable and particularly capable of handling unique driving circumstances known as edge cases.

In November 2021, the company announced it had raised $101 million in Series C funding, and in March 2022 said it had brought in another $19 million, for a total of $120 million. Autobrains has to date raised just under $140 million in total. Its backers include Continental, BMW’s venture capital arm BMW i Ventures, Temasek the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, Toyota Ventures, Knorr-Bremse and VinFast.

Clients

In 2024, Autobrains announced its first design win with a leading Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. The partnership brings Autobrains’ AI technology into series production, with the first vehicles featuring its Affordable Safety ADAS solution. This marked a significant milestone in the company’s commercial rollout and global expansion.

Partnerships

In June 2021, Autobrains announced that its AI technology is central to Continental's growth strategy in the ADAS and AV markets. It had previously spent two years as part of Continental’s incubator program, the Startup Programme of Continental. Together, the companies have developed a single optical camera sensor array that costs 30% less than previous systems, can “see” up to 140 meters (459 feet) ahead on the highway, and can handle ADAS functions including automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control and more.

In December 2021, Autobrains announced it would partner with Ambarella, a fabless semiconductor design company, to develop ADAS solutions. The companies showcased their first product – an 8-mega pixel front ADAS chip, which features video-based adaptive cruise control (ACC), automatic emergency braking, lane-keep assist, and traffic signal recognition – at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2022.

At CES 2023, Autobrains announced a strategic collaboration with Ambarella and Seeing Machines, an Australian company focused on vision-based driver monitoring technology, to offer automakers a single-box, multi-camera solution using a single SoC. This smaller system provides a low-power and low-cost solution for ADAS.

In December 2025, Autobrains announced a strategic collaboration with JOYNEXT, a global automotive Tier-1 supplier, offering a single-box Smart Camera solution, optimized for cost-effective Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.

Technology/Products

Autobrains is developing a self-learning AI technology that, rather than relying on manual data labeling techniques commonly used in the deep-learning AI industry, organizes real-world data into indexed and compressed neural responses it names “signatures” in order to identify concepts and scenarios. Signatures categorize objects by commonalities such as physical characteristics and movement patterns; for example, a large, slow-moving construction vehicle does not need to be labeled individually as bulldozer, backhoes, and excavator, and the system is able to recognize rare vehicles in this category as part of the same signature as the other vehicles, rather than failing to perceive or identify the vehicle and reacting inappropriately. This “unsupervised learning” approach dramatically reduces the amount of computing power required to learn, store, and deploy information, which in turn reduces the cost of installing and maintaining the system in vehicles.

Additionally, the company says its signature-based approach requires less recalibration if cameras or other sensors are moved to a different part of the vehicle, whether by a few inches or a more dramatic change such as from the hood to the roof.

The platform, which is backed by more than 250 patents and a decade of R&D, is hardware-agnostic, designed to work with sensors and chipsets from any provider.

Furthermore, in September 2024 Autobrains announced a new technology: Air2Road. Air2Road is a unique localization technology that combines imagery captured from the air with real-time perception data from the ego-vehicle itself. Designed to enhance safety, perception, and localization accuracy, Air2Road supports scalable autonomous driving by reducing reliance on pre-mapped data or constant cloud connectivity. The approach enables robust performance even in challenging environments, marking a step toward more reliable and independent vehicle autonomy.

Media Coverage

• Autobrains covered in California Business Journal on how Autobrains CEO Igal Raichelgauz Is Reimagining Self-Driving Technology.
• Autobrains’ CEO, Igal Raichelgauz, covered in Forbes on 3 Reasons The Automotive Industry Is Poised To Fulfill The Promise Of Autonomous Driving.
• Autobrains C-Funding round covered in TechCrunch.
• Autobrains’ C-Funding round covered in Handelsblatt.
• Autobrains’ CEO and Founder, Igal Raichelgauz, was featured in an interview with the Handelsblatt, explaining Autobrains’ unique AI inspired by the human brain and optimized for solving edge cases.
• Just Auto features Igal Raichelgauz discussing solutions to the challenges of autonomous driving and how Autobrains’ AI solves them.
• Interview with Igal Raichelgauz featured in AutomotiveIT magazine, discussing Autobrains’ unique AI solution and software-defined vehicles.
• Automobil Industrie features our CEO discussing the establishment of our Munich office.
• Reuters feature on Autbrains’ (former Cartica AI) spinn-off and partnerships with BMW, Toyota and Continental.