{"id":277918,"date":"2025-11-11T15:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277918\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:39:22","slug":"chery-almost-ready-to-let-ai-design-its-next-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277918\/","title":{"rendered":"Chery almost ready to let AI design its next car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">Chery says it\u2019s nearly ready to let artificial intelligence (AI) design and perhaps even develop a complete car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">Like most automakers, the Chinese brand is already using AI to fast-track key elements during the engineering process, such as improving aerodynamic performance, simulating crash tests, and optimising the structural rigidity of components.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">But in an exclusive interview with CarExpert at Chery\u2019s headquarters in Wuhu, the Chery group\u2019s chief engineer David Lu admitted his R&amp;D team are examining the possibility of handing over the entire process to AI \u2013 from design all the way through to engineering \u2013 as an experiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carexpert.com.au\/buy\/\" class=\"_87i7r20 _87i7r21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0to get a great deal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_1ivmml5zz _1ivmml51k7 _1ivmml516 _1u8h4qz8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-2025cherycrashtest.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cWe have some proposals to see if we let AI design [a whole] vehicle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cWho knows, right? Everybody wants to see that. It\u2019s still at the concept level of thinking that, if we just let it\u2026 just let the AI do it and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cWe have all the information from customer feedback, and if we put all the requirements there \u2013 the starting engineering requirements and ask for the outcome \u2013 we could use AI for the whole process. So, it\u2019s an idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cI don\u2019 think we have a real usage for it yet, but we want to see what kind of imagination it has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_1ivmml5zz _1ivmml51k7 _1ivmml516 _1u8h4qz8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-2025cherycsh2.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">Chery is currently investing heavily in AI to turbocharge the development of its new models when it comes to designing components and optimising aerodynamics, although humans still conduct the majority of design and development work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cAI is definitely involved in our process now, but it\u2019s not really replacing human design yet,\u201d added Mr Lu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cSo, we are using AI as like an assistant to help us to improve the efficiency as well as the quality optimisation process through computer aided engineering (CAE) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cAnd other areas you are also probably very familiar [with] is in vehicle dynamics and digital design. When you tune the suspension we can do some analytical testing using AI before we build the prototype vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_1ivmml5zz _1ivmml51k7 _1ivmml516 _1u8h4qz8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-2025cherybody.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">However, Mr Lu said actual actual engineers would continue to sign off final chassis tunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cBut this area is also still very subjective and we always need the experience of engineers to validate [chassis setup changes]. The fine-tuning is still based on human, right\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">\u201cThose are experience-based and knowledge-based things there, but AI can definitely help us give us a starting point and a direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">Chery is also using AI to develop a range of robots under its AiMOGA division, including a humanoid called Mornine that could, one day, showcase key features of Chery group vehicles in dealerships, as well as a robotic dog called Argus as a companion for elderly or lonely people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m7p3v71 _1ivmml53r _1ivmml52 _1ivmml5i _1ivmml53cf _1ivmml53j3 _1ivmml53tr _1ivmml540f\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carexpert.com.au\/chery\" class=\"_87i7r20 _87i7r21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Explore the Chery showroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chery says it\u2019s nearly ready to let artificial intelligence (AI) design and perhaps even develop a complete car.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-277918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}