A collaboration between the Hyundai Motor Company and IonQ will see the latter’s quantum computer machine vision algorithms being further developed. The system can conduct object detection on 3D data from autonomous vehicles. The pair will also use IonQ’s quantum computers to simulate electrochemical reactions of varying metal catalysts. The newly announced projects build on previous work carried out by the two companies, increasing the role that quantum computers play in the development of smart, environmentally friendly vehicles. To design and develop reliable, autonomous vehicles, IonQ and Hyundai are applying quantum machine learning to image processing. This consists of images, like road signs, being encoded into a quantum state for classification and object detection.
