Jun 8Provide a peek behind the scenes about development at Woven City — Woven City Tech Meetup — “Cloud”Toyota announced its project “Woven City” at CES, the largest technology trade show in the world, back in 2020. The mission of Woven City is “Building the Future Fabric of Life in a City as a Test Course for Mobility.” where people actually live, test and invent new services and…Meetup9 min read
Apr 22What Is an Ideal Rotation Representation With Uncertainty for Object Manipulation?By Takuya Ikeda (Senior Engineer) and Koichi Nishiwaki (Principal Robotics Researcher), in the Robotics Team of the Woven City Management Team. Smart cities have been a hot topic recently, and some of you may have heard of Woven City, a smart city that is being built in Susono, Shizuoka, Japan…Robotics5 min read
Jan 18TVM in the Arene AI Platform of Woven PlanetIntroduction — By Ryo Takahashi, Srushti Rashmi Shirish, Koichiro Yamaguchi, Takaaki Tagawa and Yusuke Yachide, Senior Engineer, ML Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Engineer and Senior Manager for Arene at Woven Alpha. Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. (Woven Planet) proceeds with various initiatives for future mobility solutions. Automated driving and robotics are, of course…Software7 min read
Nov 19, 2021The Evolution of Our Data PlatformBy Sahir Contractor, Senior Software Engineer for Arene at Woven Alpha Abstract Data plays a key role in the development of Arene which aims to enable true state-of-the-art mobility programming as the basis for next-generation vehicles. When you build a data platform, it’s crucial to understand what kind of data you’ll…Software6 min read
Nov 10, 2021Application of neural architecture search for the monocular depth estimation task in Arene AIBy Yuki Kawana, Koichiro Yamaguchi, Takaaki Tagawa and Yusuke Yachide, Engineer, Staff Engineer, Senior Engineer and Senior Manager for Arene at Woven Alpha Arene aims to enable true state-of-the-art mobility programming as the basis for next-generation vehicles. With such innovative technology, we are all dedicated to bringing our vision of…Arene10 min read
Oct 22, 2021Embracing Mapping Standards: How AMP is enabling product integration through the NDS.Live HD Mapping standard for automated vehiclesBy Andrew Calkins, Senior Solution Engineer for AMP at Woven Alpha Our goal at Woven Planet Holdings, Inc. (Woven Planet) is to benefit humanity by enabling the safe mobility of the world — “Mobility to Love, Safety to Live.” Within the Automated Mapping Platform (AMP) team at Woven Alpha, Inc…Automated Driving4 min read
Sep 27, 2021Large Scale Data Annotation Pipeline With Global Dataset Governance Policy in AreneBy Akira Wakatsuki, Takaaki Tagawa, Yusuke Yachide and Yuta Tsuzuki, Senior Engineers, Senior Manager and Engineer for Arene at Woven Alpha Introduction Arene aims to enable true state-of-the-art mobility programming as the basis for next-generation vehicles. With such innovative technology, we are all dedicated to bringing our vision of “Mobility to…Software6 min read
Aug 16, 2021Not just another HD Map: AMP Approach to HD Map DevelopmentBy Erika Kamptner, Senior Product Manager for AMP at Woven Alpha Developing high-definition (HD) maps is the Automated Mapping Platform (AMP) team’s contribution to the Woven Planet vision, “Mobility to Love, Safety to Live.” For our team, this means we are broadening our scope to include: More Road Types —…Automated Driving5 min read
Jul 5, 2021Data Pipelines — One Step at a TimeThe Arene Platform is being developed to accelerate the creation of value towards a future where ‘mobility’ replaces ‘transportation.’ As software pioneers, we provide a modern Developer Kit and a Vehicle Runtime with APIs that enable coders to program vehicles in ways never before possible. To make this innovative platform…Data6 min read
Jun 3, 2021Discuss the bigger idea - replicating the Dojo concept at other companiesThe Problem Talent is a physics problem. All companies have talent. All companies want more of it. A certain amount of talent is needed to accomplish a company’s mission. We can quantify this — call it x. The present amount of talent the company has we can call y. Thus x minus…Software Engineer5 min read
