After years of hype, autonomous trucking providers have begun to deliver on the promise of driverless operations, with companies touting plans for commercial uses.
Kodiak Robotics and Atlas Energy Solutions announced that Atlas completed the delivery of 100 loads of proppant with two RoboTruck equipped with Kodiak Driver, Kodiak’s self-driving system.
Autonomous yard operations leader Outrider recently announced an industry-first deployment of advanced reinforcement learning (RL) techniques across its customer sites.
As public confidence in autonomous vehicles continues low, autonomous trucking developers are reeling in safety data from third-party experts.
A new study projecting adoption of hydrogen internal combustion engines over the next decade suggests modest adoption.
James Taylor will take his second run at leading a commercial electric truck company as the new CEO of Bollinger Motors.
Is wireless charging an idea whose time has come for electric trucks? In some use cases, the answer is yes.
The potential energy and environmental gains from autonomous trucking are laid out in a new white paper from Aurora Innovation.
Three companies departed autonomous trucking in 2023 as Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Robotics and Torc Robotics staked leadership claims.
Can Outrider hold onto its healthy lead in distribution yard autonomy as competition begins to form?
Trailers are constantly on the move in distribution yards for unloading, cleaning, loading, staging and storage. Sometimes, they get lost.
Tracking trailer inventory was always part of Outrider’s autonomous distribution yard plan. Now, it is happening.
A cross-section of Industry experts offer thoughts on how transportation management systems will integrate with autonomous trucks.
Colorado startup Outrider, which transforms distribution yards into automated operations, has raised $73 million in a Series C round.
Outrider continues transforming yard operations to autonomy, adding a robotic arm to connect and disconnect brake lines.
Mary O’Connell and Andrew Smith, founder and CEO of Outrider, sit down to talk about all things warehousing and automation
Outrider, an autonomous distribution yard developer, is readying a robotics kit that would allow shippers to automate operations.
Outrider is adding autonomously precise backing of trailers to the dock to its range of driverless services in distribution yards.
The event will take place at Prologis headquarters in San Francisco from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. PT, with the option for attendees to attend virtually.
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“There’s no reason the yard of the future shouldn’t operate with the click of a button and the power of the sun,” says Outrider CEO Andrew Smith.
Automation, optimization and location are all key in making warehouses function more sustainably.
Poursohi and Smith seek competitive advantage by deploying systems early and often.
Outrider focuses on autonomous zero-emissions yard operations for logistics hubs.
The mission is to make the yard environment cleaner and more efficient, Outrider CEO says.
