

Uber has been working towards autonomous cars at their robotics facilities for several years now. Uber’s acquisition of Mighty AI, a company that specializes in computer vision which trains to data to improve how self-driving cars visualize other objects such as people on the road, shows how committed Uber is towards their driverless cars project. Self-driving cars are Mighty AI’s USP, however that hasn’t prevented the company from gaining success in other application such as self service checkout systems and precision agriculture.



Several of Mighty AI’s giant clients which include Microsoft, Intel and Samsung have been informed of the closure. Mighty AI raised $27.3 million from several investors, such as Google and Madrona Venture Group which lead to the company being valued at $85 million as of its last round of funding.



The news comes right on the heels of Apple’s acquisition of drive.ai, which confirms that Apple has not given up yet on its autonomous driving project. The acquisition gave Apple access to drive.ai’s technology and its employees.



