SoftBank to launch service to help power self-driving buses, farm machinery


  • TECH
  • Monday, 03 Jun 2019

SoftBank Corp. placard is prepared during a ceremony to mark the company's debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files

TOKYO: Japan's SoftBank Corp said on June 3 it will launch a service this year that would use satellite navigation data and the telco's mobile base stations to help power self-driving buses, drones and farm machinery. 

The service, which will begin trials in Japan next month before expanding nationwide in November, aims to provide centimetre-level positioning to the autonomous tech that is beginning to be introduced across a range of industries, SoftBank said. 

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