REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 20, 2025–
Helm.ai, a leading provider of autonomous driving AI software, today announced a multi-year joint development agreement with Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Through this collaboration, the two companies will accelerate the development of Honda’s next-generation self-driving capabilities, including its Navigate on Autopilot (NOA) platform.
The partnership centers on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for production consumer cars, leveraging Helm.ai’s full stack real-time AI software and large-scale autolabeling and generative simulation foundation models for development and validation. Helm.ai will contribute its full suite of products geared toward highway and urban autonomy, including its perception stack (Helm.ai Vision), vision-based real-time path prediction AI (Helm.ai Driver), and generative simulation models (VidGen-2, GenSim-1, GenSim-2, and WorldGen-1). Powered by Helm.ai’s Deep Teaching™ technology, these real-time AI systems and offline foundation models are pre-trained on large-scale, diverse, multi-modal datasets and can be further adapted to meet Honda’s specifications for safe, reliable, and scalable deployment.
Honda’s NOA system utilizes an end-to-end (E2E) AI architecture that controls everything from environmental perception to decision-making and vehicle actuation. Designed as a partially automated system requiring constant driver attention, NOA supports both highway and complex urban driving. Honda aims to scale this E2E technology across a broader vehicle lineup and is developing a system that highly assists in operating the accelerator and steering throughout the entire route to the destination, without distinction between regular roads and highways, with mass production targeted after 2027.
