Kudan Inc. announced that Kudan and Vecow Co. Ltd. (Vecow) announced the expansion of their strategic partnership. This partnership expansion brings together Kudan's expertise in commercial-grade SLAM software technology and Vecow's innovation in time synchronization technology and strength in AI computing systems, enabling full-scale accuracy, reliability, and robustness for outdoor autonomous mobility and mobile mapping applications.

Building upon the foundation of their previous joint initiative in 2020, Kudan and Vecow have recognized the immense synergy in deepening their relationship towards outdoor robotics and 3D mapping markets and creating significant value to address the key challenges of their customers in product development and commercialization. By combining multi-sensor fusion-based Visual and 3D-Lidar SLAM technologies from Kudan, and a sophisticated while rugged time synchronization and edge computing system, called Time Sync BOX from Vecow, this collaboration expansion aims to help the market players address their pain points, and improve the capabilities of outdoor autonomous robots and mobile mapping systems with enhanced accuracy, robustness, safety and efficiency against various operational scenarios. The two companies will conduct joint product developments to meet the objectives described and collaborate on marketing, business development, and sales activities leveraging their global business footprints.