Antolin has announced a strategic partnership with Neural Concept, an AI-centered engineering platform, to accelerate innovation in automotive interior design. The partnership aims to accelerate design and validation cycles, improve efficiency, and foster greater innovation across Antolin’s global engineering teams.
Following a successful pilot in 2024, Antolin now is scaling Neural Concept’s platform across key product lines. Technology integrates seamlessly with existing design and simulation environments, enabling faster iterations, enhanced teamwork, and data-driven insights that guide design decisions more efficiently.
Antolin Global Engineering VP Pedro Santesteban says, “Artificial intelligence is becoming an essential tool to accelerate innovation and improve design efficiency. Working alongside Neural Concept allows us to explore new ways of applying AI to strengthen our engineering processes and the capabilities of our teams”.
Interior lighting is already an increasingly essential element in elevating driver and passenger experience, while reinforcing brand identity and comfort. In the past, Antolin’s R&D teams relied on manual design iterations guided by expertise and validated through time-consuming simulations – a process that often stretched over several weeks. The new partnership is meant to strengthen cross-functional coöperation and efficiency across Antolin’s teams while meeting OEMs’ safety and performance standards.
With an initial focus on lighting systems, Antolin and Neural Concept plan to expand their partnership to other interior components, from plastic parts to complex assemblies. The long-term vision is to revamp the entire interior design workflow to deliver faster, more sustainable, and more customizable solutions.
Beyond faster workflows, Neural Concept will allow Antolin to maintain long-term competitivity and sustained differentiation, ensuring they accelerate development and future-proof their industrial innovations. Neural Concept cofounder and CEO Dr. Pierre Baqué says, “Automotive interiors are evolving into one of the most critical areas of design differentiation for carmakers. By partnering with Antolin (…) we are helping their teams explore new creative possibilities in close coördination. Through AI-augmentation, we enable engineers to make smarter, data-driven decisions while eliminating the costly bottlenecks of manual iteration. We look forward to expanding our collaboration across interiors and beyond, enabling Antolin to innovate faster and more boldly in automotive design”.
