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Ryder System is leasing space at a Houston maintenance facility to Kodiak Robotics for driverless truck operations.

Nikola is in no hurry to artificially boost its stock price to ward off its second Nasdaq delisting notice in eight months.

Three companies departed autonomous trucking in 2023 as Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Robotics and Torc Robotics staked leadership claims.

The financial freezeout of startups by investors may be thawing as FOMU — the fear of messing up — begins to subside.

TuSimple Holdings is following through on winding down its U.S. autonomous trucking business, laying off 150 more employees.

Who is leading, following, emerging or out of the game in autonomous trucking? Here’s an assessment of shifts among the players.

Amid a contraction of autonomous trucking firms, the founders of self-driving startup Argo AI are launching a driverless trucking startup.

Could Kodiak leverage some of the work Navistar has in on a redundant chassis for a Class 8 autonomous truck?

The future of Waymo Via had been whispered about for months after parent Alphabet Inc. cut thousands of jobs across the company earlier this year.

Losers among transportation startups are rapidly being defined, It will take longer to determine the winners.

Embark Technology, an early leader in autonomous trucking software development, becomes part of Applied Intuition in a $71 million deal.

Transportation startups that went for easy SPAC money never thought times would turn so ugly – certainly not so fast.

Predictive maintenance analytics for autonomous trucks could provide a reverse benefit for human-driven trucks.

Driverless trucks have special needs that only humans can perform at terminals where they will drop and hook loads.

Proterra Inc. and Ouster Inc. are just two of many technology startups and growth-stage companies struggling financially.

How confident is Kodiak Robotics of the safety of its autonomous system? How about cutting a sensor cable while the truck is running?

Embark Trucks, the original autonomous trucking company, may put itself up for sale or liquidate after laying off 70% of its employees.

Nikola customers will test Plus autonomy on the startup’s battery and fuel cell electric trucks this year and make it standard in 2024.

As valuations of SPAC-backed startups plummet, one autonomous trucking developer that avoided the FOMO and stayed private is thriving.

It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming.

From a Netflix-worthy docudrama at TuSimple to dueling technology announcements, autonomous trucking took steps toward commercialization.

Knight-Swift is the first carrier to put its own driver behind the wheel of a tractor embedded with autonomous software from Embark Trucks.

Lingering questions about how autonomous trucks will work on the road drove DHL Supply Chain to partner with Embark, which is focused on the “nitty-gritty” details of self-driving technology.

DHL and autonomous truck operator Embark discuss their partnership and the last hurdles for rolling out automated trucks.

Embark Trucks is expanding into several key markets to create a coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network of transfer locations.

Separar los problemas de la comercialización de camiones autónomos es cada vez más difícil

The Wall Street Journal reports multiple federal probes of TuSimple’s China dealings after a watchdog set up oversight in February.

How is it that California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state most autonomous trucking startups call home, refuses to allow commercial testing of the technology?

Shareholder letters and earnings call transcripts don’t qualify as page-turning vacation reading. But they say a lot.

TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen launches Hydron, an autonomous trucking venture that would use hydrogen fuel to achieve zero emissions.

Embark Trucks and BYD demonstrated what using electricity rather than diesel looked like in drayage with an autonomous truck.

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Se espera que el número de camiones y autobuses automatizados crezca desde prácticamente cero este año hasta 1,2 millones en 2032, según un nuevo análisis de mercado de Guidehouse Insights. […]

Automated trucks and buses are expected to number 1.2 million annually by 2032 compared with about 1,000 in testing today.

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As robots take over for human drivers, will they raise or lower the risk of tire blowouts that claim dozens of lives in truck crashes every year?

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Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.

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Embark Trucks’ connection with Knight-Swift will lead to the installation of high-autonomy software by the end of 2022.

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German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.

Self-driving trucking company Embark plans to begin hauling freight for customers between Houston and San Antonio next year.

Hedge funds and retail investors led the takeoff in transportation SPACs that are barely staying aloft. Guess who gets the better end of that deal?

Embark Trucks rings the Nasdaq bell to begin public trading Thursday, but early share redemptions in its SPAC merger cut proceeds by $300 million.

Company demos presented during FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience show how automation can provide cost and time savings.

Autonomous trucking software developer Kodiak Robotics raises $125 million in new capital after passing on going public via SPAC.

As public trading nears this week, 26-year-old Embark Trucks co-founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak focus on lean autonomous trucking.

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From merger to business combination in less than four months, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation expects to begin public trading on Thursday.

Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.

Chinese investment scrutiny and SPAC renegotiation suggest going public may not happen for autonomous trucking software maker Plus.

Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks will soon join TuSimple Holdings as stocks betting on the future of driverless trucks.

With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.

Five of 16 challenges to removing the driver from Embark’s high-autonomy truck remain, but a ride-along shows how much the startup has already mastered.

The Plus supervised autonomy system differs Level 4 testing by competitors, but it puts some automated driving functions within reach of fleets faster.

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SPAC-sponsored autonomous software developer Embark Trucks is tapping industry experts for advice as its public debut nears.

Embark Trucks will use BYD electric trucks to cover 50 miles of HP printer loads, while its autonomous tractors take the middle segment.

Autonomous truck software developer Embark Trucks is using Nvidia’s system on a chip for its plug-and-play autonomous system.

Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.

Embark Transportation advances plug-and-play software to take drivers out of trucks.

Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.

Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.

Outside funding totals nearly $5 billion as Waymo’s expenses rise to expand driverless ride hailing and high-autonomy trucking software.

HP is shipping a weekly load of computer printers on supervised robot semis from Embark Trucks, which is growing its partner network.

Kodiak Robotics claims the best autonomous trucking software. But the startup trails the sector’s big names in both money and partners.

With TuSimple going public by IPO, a new report says rival autonomous trucking software developer Plus will soon follow via SPAC.

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Startup self-driving truck software-maker Embark Trucks sees itself at the center of an autonomous ecosystem driven by fleet and logistics partners.

Embark Trucks hit the autonomous road sooner than the competition. Now it wants to help fleets get ready to plug into self-driving trucks.

There continue to be concerns about when these new orders will be prepared, as many truck manufacturers continue to deal with semiconductor shortages.

The costs of keeping up with four engine technologies and the pace of self-driving trucks push rival truck manufacturers into partnerships.

Self-driving technology startup Embark Trucks develops a universal autonomous driving system that will work in semis from the four largest manufacturers.

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