China's Baidu will help deliver Walmart groceries in self-driving vans
中国百度的自驾车将帮助沃尔玛送货
By Sherisse Pham ︱Jan. 9, 2019
China's leading search engine will soon be helping make deliveries for Walmart, bringing it into direct competition with Google's driverless technology.
中国领先的搜索引擎将很快帮助沃尔玛送货，使其与谷歌的无人驾驶技术遭遇正面竞争。
California startup Udelv announced Tuesday that it will deploy self-driving vans using Baidu's technology in Surprise, Arizona, as part of a pilot program to deliver fresh groceries for Walmart (WMT).
加州初创企业Udelv周二宣布，将在亚利桑那州的瑟普赖斯使用百度技术的自驾面包车为沃尔玛超市送货，这是与沃尔玛合作提供新鲜食品的试点计划的一部分。
Udelv has developed a fleet of autonomous delivery vans on Baidu's (BIDU) open-source autonomous driving platform, Apollo.
Udelv已经在百度的名为Apollo的开源自主驾驶平台上开发了一队自动送货车。
The partnership with Baidu comes amid heightened trade tensions between the United States and China, a lot of which are centered around advanced technologies, and highlights how companies from the two countries continue to work together.
与百度的合作正值美中贸易紧张局势加剧之际，其中很多都以先进技术为中心，并突出了两国企业继续合作方式方法。
Udelv CEO Daniel Laury said using Apollo software helped speed up development of the company's latest self-driving delivery van, dubbed the Newton.
Udelv的首席执行官Daniel Laury说，使用Apollo软件有助于加速公司最新的、名为牛顿的自动送货车的开发。
"Baidu's Apollo brings us one step closer towards realizing our mission of reinventing delivery by bringing autonomous vehicles to the e-commerce industry," Laury said in a statement.
Laury在一份声明中说：“百度的Apollo让我们更进一步地实现了我们的使命，即通过将自主车辆引入电子商务行业，重塑送货业务。”
Udelv's Newton "is a prime example of Apollo accelerating innovation and utility in the autonomous driving industry," said Jingao Wang, head of Baidu's Apollo platform.
百度Apollo平台负责人王静高（音译）说，Udelv的牛顿“是Apollo加速自主驾驶产业创新和效用的一个典型例子”。
The self-driving delivery vans will be used by other US companies in San Mateo, California, and Houston, Texas.
自驾送货车亦将被加利福尼亚州圣马特奥、和德克萨斯州休斯顿的其他的美国公司所使用。
Baidu has been extremely bullish on artificial intelligence and wants to become an industry leader. Last year it became the first Chinese company to join a US-led alliance on AI that includes Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Facebook (FB), Google (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and IBM (IBM).
百度一直非常看好人工智能，并希望成为行业领导者。去年，它成为第一家加入美国主导的人工智能联盟的中国公司，联盟成员涵盖硅谷最大的公司，包括Facebook（FB）、谷歌（Google）、亚马逊（Amazon）、微软（Microsoft）和IBM（IBM）
The tie-up with Udelv and Walmart will pit Baidu against one of its biggest autonomous driving rivals, Waymo.
Udelv和沃尔玛的合作将使百度与最大的自主驾驶对手Waymo产生竞争。
Walmart started running a pilot "chauffer" program with Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google's parent company Alphabet, last year in Chandler, Arizona. Walmart customers order groceries online, and Waymo cars drive them to and from the store to pick up their goods. The US retailer also has a pilot program with Ford (F) to deliver groceries via autonomous cars in Miami, Florida.
去年，沃尔玛在亚利桑那州的钱德勒市与谷歌母公司Alphabet的自动驾驶汽车部门Waymo一起开始了一项名为“专车司机”的试点计划。沃尔玛的顾客在网上订购商品，而Waymo汽车则载着他们往返于商店取货。这家美国零售商还与福特汽车进行了一项试点计划，在佛罗里达州的迈阿密通过自动汽车运送杂货。
Baidu's self-driving car unit is partly based in Silicon Valley, and the company was one of the first to apply for a license to test driverless cars in California. It got approval to start testing them in September 2016.
百度的自动驾驶汽车部门有一部分开设在硅谷，该公司是第一批申请加州无人驾驶汽车测试许可证的公司之一。2016年9月获得批准开始测试。
The Chinese firm launched Apollo the following year and has attracted global brands like Volvo (VLKAF) and BMW (BMWYY) to join the open-source platform and help develop the technology driving it.
这家中国公司于次年推出了Apollo，并吸引了沃尔沃（VLKAF）和宝马（BMWYY）等国际品牌加入开源平台，帮助开发推动其技术的发展。
Baidu said Apollo is currently used by about 12,000 developers worldwide.
百度表示，目前全球约有12000名开发者使用Apollo。
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