Honda Motor announced it had agreed to carry out research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in collaboration with two Indian institutes of technology (IITs) to further advance Honda Cooperative Intelligence (Honda CI) – its in house AI which enables mutual understanding between machines and people.

Through Honda Motor R&D and its Indian manufacturing subsidiary Honda Cars India (HCIL), the automaker will work with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) to improve its AI capability.

The automaker said Honda CI is a “type of artificial intelligence that supports the user while cooperating with the user and people around them by communicating with gestures, behaviours and words. Achieving mutual understanding and cooperation between people and systems with CI will enable them to coexist in various situations including complex traffic environments”.

Honda said it had been developing CI with the aim to “realise a society where each and every person can enjoy the joy and freedom of mobility. To this end, Honda is trying to make the mobility of people and things ubiquitous (whenever, wherever, to any destination), collision-free and stress-free”.

Honda is currently conducting technology demonstrations as a proof of concept of its CI powered micromobility vehicle/robot in Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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