ISEE partners with investor Holman on autonomous yard trucks

Most of that list involves no software at all.

Doing retrofits in-house would have meant hiring many more technicians, work Yu said falls outside ISEE’s expertise. Holman has done truck retrofitting for years and runs a nationwide network of shops and technicians alongside its leasing business, she said.

Holman launched Holman Robotics, a unit that pairs financing with lifecycle management for robotic equipment, in December 2025.

“By combining Holman’s robot fleet leasing and management infrastructure with ISEE’s autonomous technology, we can provide customers with a practical solution covering the full vehicle lifecycle,” said Joe Foster, Holman’s vice president of robotics, in a statement.

From pilots to fleets

ISEE did not need a large fleet or much retrofit capacity while it was running prototypes and pilots, Yu said. She described the company as now at an inflection point, with multiple F100 customers interested in deploying over thousands autonomous yard truck fleets with ISEE over the next couple of years. 

Retrofits and factory builds

Retrofits cover trucks already in service. New units come through OEMs, including terminal tractor maker TICO, which partnered with ISEE in April 2025.

“Not just retrofitting. We also need to do factory-built units through the TICO collaboration, starting from 2027,” Yu said.

That timing matches the 2027 serial production target FreightWaves reported in June. ISEE will also keep working with other yard truck OEMs on new diesel, alternative-fuel and electric models, according to the release.

Yu said retrofits let operators of yard trucks already working in customer yards automate sooner.

Demand is rising as manufacturing, data centers and infrastructure grow in the United States, Yu said, including from enterprise customers “that we never imagined before.”

“We believe it’s critical to actually align the partnership quickly,” she said.