{"id":4434,"date":"2025-12-17T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:37:36","slug":"robots-are-going-to-be-amongst-us-qualcomm-exec-says-buckle-up-for-the-next-5-years-your-car-is-going-to-be-the-first-shoe-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4434","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Robots are going to be amongst us\u2019: Qualcomm exec says buckle up for the next 5 years. Your car is going to be the first shoe to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A future filled with robots that can reason is fast approaching\u2014and it starts with your car, Qualcomm\u2019s executive vice president says.<\/p>\n

The U.S. semiconductor giant best known for designing the mobile processors that power most of the world\u2019s smartphones recently announced it would take on Nvidia and AMD in making AI chips. As Qualcomm expands its product portfolio and transforms its culture, Nakul Duggal, the company’s former auto and smart products chief, says AI will usher in a new era for robotics. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think robots are going to become much more pervasive than people think,\u201d Duggal told AI Editor Jeremy Kahn at Fortune Brainstorm AI last week.<\/p>\n

Qualcomm is in the process of transforming \u201cthe DNA of the company,\u201d said Duggal, who now serves in an executive vice president role. Recently, the semiconductor company has expanded its AI partnerships, integrating Google\u2019s Gemini models to deliver in?car agentic AI assistants. <\/p>\n

Qualcomm has developed driver?assistance systems including AI features like lane?keeping, automated parking, and hands?free highway assist, as well as voice and in?car assistants, for major automakers across the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and General Motors.<\/p>\n

The company launched its first driver-assistance stack\u2014a set of software and hardware layers that work together to make the system run\u2014with BMW in September, Duggal said. Its driver-assistance stack is now launched across 60 countries, he added, which took Qualcomm three and a half years. But Duggal has a bigger vision for the tech.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be in 100 countries by the end of next year,\u201d Duggal said.<\/p>\n

Duggal pointed to companies such as Waymo and Tesla as examples of development and adoption of autonomous and driver-assisted technology, saying it\u2019s taken about 10 years for the innovations to come to market.<\/p>\n

\u201cTen years is a pretty short period of time for the type of adoption that society has for things like driving, which is all about what you need from a day-to-day perspective: It needs to be safe, it needs to be reliable,\u201d Duggal said. \u201cI think the next five years is going to move even faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite safety concerns about autonomous and driver-assisted technology powering Waymos and Teslas, more drivers want the technology. A recent AutoPacific survey polling licensed drivers aged 18-plus who plan to buy new vehicles within three years found 43% want hands-off semi-autonomous driving for highway use\u2014that\u2019s a 20 percentage point increase from 2024.<\/p>\n

Duggal explained that to develop tech like this that is regulated and safe demands a foundation of clear, rules?based guardrails. <\/p>\n

\u201cAI then layers on top\u201d of that structured framework, Duggal said.<\/p>\n

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n

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