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Grocery delivery firm Instacart is hoping to cash in on its value with a public stock offering.

Tula Technology’s engine controls could clear a major hurdle for trucking companies facing tougher emissions rules.

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

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

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

“Together we have ambitious plans to invest in and expand the Remix product suite to offer enhanced capabilities for planning and bus scheduling and operations,” said Via co-founders Daniel Ramot and Oren Shoval.

Self-driving truck technology startup Plus is already working on an autonomous freight matching project in China. Now it has investors there.

Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden said that for the past year, positive unit economics has been Bird’s top priority for a sustainable long-term business. This is an ideology that departs from that of many startups and emerging companies whose focus seems to be on top line growth and revenue building.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) joined with capital venture firm Sequoia and T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) to invest $530 million in self-driving vehicle startup Aurora Innovation according to Aurora’s press release on Medium.

Port truck operators could potentially increase their wages by using a new service from NEXT that helps them run shorter runs and return to ports with empty containers. The company just secured $97 million in funding to help it expand.