autonomous trucking

How NASA’s Mars Rover is helping to chart a path for autonomous trucks

Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette explains why the development of autonomous trucking is poised to leap from the experimentation phase to a viable commercial product during the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit.

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

Locomation: Re-Engineering the World’s Supply Chain for Autonomy

Autonomous Operation Levels

Waymo solved the maze of autonomously navigating surface streets. That is helping WaymoVia teach commercial trucks how to do likewise.

Forget the autonomous trucking horse race, Wall Street and competitors are fixated on TuSimple’s “driver-out” pilot in Q4.

TuSimple will focus on perfecting its core autonomous trucking technology on the middle mile while it relies on partners for other aspects of the technology and services required.

A Product Roadmap with Locomation: Full Autonomy in Four Phases.

Walt Disney predicted the technological advances of autonomous vehicles in his 1958 short film called “Magic Highway.” Read more about the history of AI-driven automobiles.

Understanding trucking automation’s effect on the trucker workforce is a priority for the Biden administration, an FMCSA official asserts.

Kodiak Robotics, one of a handful of startups aiming to automate commercial trucking, has successfully completed “disengage-free” deliveries on a 205-mile stretch of Texas highway.

Autonomous trucking startup Ike takes No. 17 spot on FreightTech 25 after a year that saw new partnerships with fleets and acquisition by partner Nuro.

Autonomous delivery company Nuro has acquired Ike, a trucking technology startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber ATG.

Plus will sell trucks powered by its automated driving system on Full Truck Alliance, the Google-backed Chinese digital freight-matching platform.

Big-city Mayors Garcetti and Emanuel are receiving much of the speculation for DOT secretary.

Full Truck Alliance is an investor in Plus, an autonomous trucking company rolling out a Level 3 truck in China starting in 2021.

The collaboration will provide tires and tire management to TuSimple’s budding autonomous freight network.

Industry panel: Autonomous trucks will be phased in gradually, eventually transforming a huge swath of economic activity.