
How a Virtual Internship Made a Real and Lasting Impact
An intern at Argo will always be welcomed as a member of the team.

How Self-Driving Technology Should Protect Pedestrians & Bicyclists
Growing up in a small town in Michigan, I saw the full spectrum of transportation options: passenger cars, farm tractors, bicycles, even horses. And I saw all sorts of other things using the roads, from people out for a walk, to wildlife, to the occasional farm animal. But in the era of the automobile, I […]

The Secret to Scaling Self-Driving Technology: Testing in Multiple Cities
What counts when training a self-driving system is not just the number of interactions but the richness and diversity of interactions it experiences with vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles, and scooters.

How Self-Driving Intelligence Helped Pittsburgh Health Officials Increase Access to Free COVID-19 Testing
“The county needed a logistical partner, someone who could safely transport these time-sensitive tests back to the people who could get them to California. We knew we had the right resources to step in.”

A Time to Act: How the Argo Team is Responding to Crisis With Action
Everything we do at Argo AI is about helping people. Those who know me personally know that I am passionate about the company’s purpose to make getting around cities safer for all. Yet, just because Argo’s technology will ultimately benefit society, we can’t sit on the sidelines when our country is in crisis now. Giving […]

Going Global: Herzlich Willkommen, Argo Munich!
Today, with the close of Volkswagen AG’s investment, we become a global company and welcome new teammates to the Argo AI family. This news not only solidifies our well-capitalized position, but differentiates us as the only self-driving technology platform company with partnerships and commercial agreements for deployment across the U.S. and Europe. As first announced […]

Innovating in Place: How One Argo Engineer Transformed His Backyard Into a Doppler Radar Testing Lab
If you tried to imagine a person who would be ideally suited for life in quarantine, Jonathan Berry might be that guy. “I understand the feel of going feral,” laughs Jonathan, a senior hardware engineer working out of Argo AI’s Palo Alto test lab. “So this is kind of working for me.” Jonathan has been […]

University of Pittsburgh SCI Recognition Ceremony 2020 Keynote by Bryan Salesky
Argo AI CEO Bryan Salesky delivered the keynote speech for the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information class of 2020 graduation. This is his speech from the virtual recognition ceremony, which took place on Sunday, May 17th, 2020. Full transcript: Thank you Dean Cohen, and hello graduates, family members, friends, and faculty. I’m […]

Better Together: Embracing the differences that make our team stronger
One of the core values at Argo AI is “We > I,” which is a simple way of saying that we operate better as a team that is collaborative and respectful to each and every employee, no matter their background. Our shared mission, purpose, and values always come before individual egos or self-interest. And while […]

Why the (Internship) Show Must Go On
In April, a few weeks before the 2020 class of Argo AI interns were set to report to their first day of work, we were faced with a dilemma: How do we maintain the integrity of our internship experience when we don’t know when we’ll be able to return to the office? It would have […]

How Self-Driving Vehicles Benefit Cities Is Up to Us
As the developers of a self-driving system, we think a lot about how our work can be applied to improve lives. Together with our partners, we want to do more than just plug self-driving vehicles into existing transportation models — we want to improve the safety of transportation in cities, and we want to solve […]

Join the Competition: Argoverse Leaderboards Are Live
Earlier this year, we released Argoverse, a curated collection of high-definition maps and sensor data from a fleet of Argo AI self-driving test vehicles. Today, we’re launching the first two Argoverse competitions using our motion forecasting and 3D tracking datasets, and inviting academic researchers and students to participate.

How to Cultivate Talent in the Self-Driving Field? Start with Interns.
For 12 weeks this summer, our team at Argo welcomed just shy of 50 interns who represent the self-driving industry’s most promising new talent.

The Argo AI Approach to Deploying Self-Driving Technology: Street-by-Street, Block-by-Block
The ‘race’ narrative is often-used when defining the deployment approach of the autonomous vehicle industry. In truth, that depiction hurts the reality of how some of us are actually operating. Self-driving technology is not a winner-take-all sprint to the finish line — and even if it was, that’s not how Argo is approaching its development […]

Cities Won’t Be Taking A Backseat When Self-Driving Cars Are Ready for Prime Time
At Argo AI, and in collaboration with Ford, our plan is to work directly with cities as we prepare to launch services enabled by self-driving vehicles, engaging local leaders to learn how we can deploy this technology in a way that best serves their needs. This may take different forms in different cities, depending on […]

Our New Partner: Volkswagen AG Invests $2.6 Billion at More Than $7 Billion Valuation; Facilitates Expansion to Europe
When we formed Argo AI more than two years ago, our mission was clear: make transportation safer, more accessible, affordable and convenient by developing self-driving vehicles in partnership with leading automakers.

Pushing the Self-Driving Frontier: Argo AI Partners with Carnegie Mellon to Form Autonomous Vehicle Research Center
It’s an amazing time for those of us in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. We’re starting to see consumer products and services powered by the capabilities that we and our predecessors spent decades developing and testing in labs across the country. And one of the flagship opportunities enabled by these capabilities — autonomous vehicles — is finally […]

Introducing Argoverse: data and HD maps for computer vision and machine learning research to advance self-driving technology
In today’s world of computer vision and machine learning research, it’s all about who has access to high-quality data — and how much of it. That’s because it takes a tremendous amount of data to train, validate, test and improve the perception algorithms and machine learning methods that enable self-driving vehicles to understand the world […]

Launching Our Third-Generation Self-Driving Test Vehicle in the Motor City
Earlier this month, I had the chance to visit Detroit and see the Motor City from a new perspective when I stepped into the backseat of one of our self-driving test vehicles. Our new Ford Fusion Hybrid is a third-generation test vehicle that Argo AI is now deploying in collaboration with Ford in all five […]

The Value We Place on Diversity and Inclusion
There are countless studies on the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce, and most focus on the fact that diversity is good for business. We couldn’t agree more, but at Argo it’s more than that. Our technology is being developed to improve the lives of everyone, and our team should reflect that.

A.I. Gets a New Champion
We are pleased to announce that Alex Roy — Editor-at-Large of The Drive, co-host of /DRIVE on NBC Sports, record-setting endurance driver, and Founder of the Autonocast and the Human Driving Association — will join Argo AI effective January 15th, 2019. You may read his statement here.

A New Kind of Safety Feature: Taking Cybersecurity Seriously As We Develop Self-Driving Cars
We are seeing an explosion of connectivity in our lives, with everything from our phones and cameras to our washing machines being imbued with the power of the internet – even connected toasters are a thing now. This same movement is happening in the automotive world, where self-driving vehicles, especially, will rely heavily on connectivity […]

Being a Better Place to Work Helps Us Build a Better Self-Driving Car
Every day Argo AI employees come to work, we all strive toward a higher purpose — transforming how the world moves. We don’t take this lightly, and that’s why it has always been important to me to make Argo AI the best place to work — a space where people want to be each day […]

More Than Just Miles: Our Self-Driving Vehicle Testing Helps Steer Miami Students Toward a Future of Robotics
After a year spent testing self-driving vehicles in Pittsburgh and Southeast Michigan — not to mention enduring some cold winter weather — the Argo AI fleet is enjoying a dramatic change of scenery. Among palm trees and ocean views, we’ve expanded our testing with Ford Motor Company into Miami-Dade County, with our self-driving vehicles now mapping roads and accumulating […]

How We’re Working with Universities to Stay on the Cutting Edge of Research
Developing reliable self-driving cars requires pushing the envelope in computer science and artificial intelligence. While we’re applying the latest techniques in computer vision and machine learning to the work we’re doing every day, some of the most advanced research is being done at the university level. That’s why it’s critical to stay connected to the […]

How Acquiring a Team of LiDAR Experts Strengthens our Self-Driving Future
We can’t talk about a future of self-driving cars without mentioning LiDAR technology — and we won’t be able to build that future without it. These sensors are crucial to creating a three-dimensional view of the world that helps autonomous vehicles find where they are on the road and detect other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.

A Decade after DARPA: Our View on the State of the Art in Self-Driving Cars
A decade ago in the California high desert, 11 finalists competed in an unprecedented 60-mile race. Robot cars needed to safely and swiftly complete the mission without any human intervention — while also interacting with human-driven vehicles — in under six hours.

Hello, Pittsburgh!
Pittsburgh has been called many things — The Steel City, City of Champions, City of Bridges, The Capital of Work. A newer name, one we’ve become particularly fond of, is Roboburgh. Yet, no matter what you call it, Pittsburgh has always been an epicenter for innovation, with an incredible workforce possessing the talent, grit and determination to […]

Why We Created Argo AI
We founded Argo AI to tackle one of the most challenging applications in computer science, robotics and artificial intelligence — self-driving vehicles. While technology exists today to augment the human driver and automate the driving task up to a certain level of capability, replacing the human driver remains an extremely complex challenge. Advances in artificial intelligence, machine […]