Self-driving startup Plus to go public through $1.2 billion SPAC dealThe transaction will provide the company with $300 million in gross proceeds, which it plans to use to achieve the commercial launch of its...
05 Jun, 2025, 05.59 PM IST
Ashok Leyland, Minus Zero partner to deploy autonomous trucking solutionsAshok Leyland and Minus Zero have formed a strategic alliance to develop autonomous trucking solutions in India. The partnership aims to re...
19 Mar, 2024, 11.40 AM IST
California governor vetoes bill banning robotrucks without safety driversThe labor-backed Assembly Bill 316, which requires a trained human driver to be present in autonomous vehicles weighing over 10,001 pounds,...
23 Sep, 2023, 01.42 PM IST
Deep tech VC launched by ex-Nvidia, Samsung executives raises $140 million fundThe Palo Alto-headquartered fund will focus on investing in early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) startups and other firms focusing on c...
19 Sep, 2023, 11.22 AM IST
SoftBank backs new autonomous trucking startup from founders of defunct Argo AIStack AV, which has 150 employees, marks another opportunity for the Argo AI founders to work on full self-driving technology, which remain...
07 Sep, 2023, 11.29 PM IST
Microsoft to invest in autonomous trucking startup GatikMicrosoft plans to invest over $10 million in a financing round that values Gatik at more than $700 million, the sources added. As part of ...
05 Jan, 2023, 08.28 AM IST
Robot yard trucks and remote-controlled forklifts to the rescueOutrider Technologies is developing autonomous yard trucks to move trailers from dock to dock at warehouses, and Phantom Auto makes remote ...
05 Feb, 2022, 09.35 AM IST
Self-driving car companies zoom ahead, leaving U.S. regulators behindCruise, Tesla, Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Aurora Innovation Inc are among many companies aiming to deploy fully autonomous vehicle technology...
02 Feb, 2022, 12.01 PM IST
China self-driving firm DeepRoute raises $300 million from Alibaba, othersDeepRoute.ai, which is testing vehicles in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Wuhan, will use the funds to double the fleet of its test rob...
14 Sep, 2021, 11.14 AM IST
Didi Chuxing close to raising $1.5 billion for trucking unitA $1.5 billion funding round will push Didi Chuxing beyond its fundraising target for Didi Freight, even as investors count on Chinese econ...
26 Jan, 2021, 08.36 PM IST
Toyota-backed startup Pony.ai raises $267 million in new funding roundThe latest funding, which comes just eight months after the company's $462 million fundraising, makes Pony.ai one of the most valuable inde...
06 Nov, 2020, 01.11 PM IST
With driverless cars late, a startup tries remote-control trucksPhantom’s yard truck customers include retailers with dozens of distribution centers across the country.
18 Apr, 2019, 03.04 PM IST
The key engineer in Uber and Google self-driving lawsuit is backThe company plans to start shipping a $4,999, seven-camera system that helps keeps commercial trucks in their lane in the first half of 201...
19 Dec, 2018, 11.03 AM IST
Former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski's nanny also says he stole dataLevandowski helped start Google’s autonomous vehicle program, left to form astartup focused on autonomous trucks, then joined Uber.
18 Jan, 2018, 08.50 AM IST
Beating Google, Tesla, this startup's self-driving truck is all set to hit Indian roadsWhile the global giants like Uber, Google and Tesla figure out how to make vehicles drive on their own, a Bengaluru-based startup believes ...
04 Jan, 2018, 03.37 PM IST
Soon, CRON's driverless tech will ferry jawansBorder security startup is working on a prototype that can be used by Army to rescue troops from hostile locations.
04 May, 2017, 01.17 PM IST
Ford to invest $1 billion self-driving AI startupThe Pittsburgh-based artificial intelligence company Argo AI will develop the brains for the fully autonomous vehicles Ford has promised to...
11 Feb, 2017, 11.00 AM IST