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Daily reporting on the companies, deployments, deals and decisions shaping autonomous systems.
The Salem-based humanoid robotics company completed its fundraise Wednesday and begins trading Thursday, reaching a reported valuation of $2.3 billion as investor appetite for AI-driven hardware is tested in public markets.
The prototype, codenamed Max, was developed in three months alongside Shanghai-based Fourier Intelligence — a partnership that raises pointed questions about US technology firms' reliance on Chinese hardware expertise.
The Gray Eagle 25M's arrival in Arizona marks a generational shift in what a state-level force can accomplish over contested terrain — and it raises serious questions about how other border states will respond.
The freight-autonomy leader's Q2 numbers are the clearest window yet into what scaling driverless trucking actually costs — and the two per-mile prices buried in the results are the figures every fleet should be reading.
NHTSA's exemption for Zoox clears the last federal hurdle to paid rides in a purpose-built robotaxi — days before a California congressman moved to impose the national safety standards the agency has declined to write.
A new joint white paper from ABB Robotics and NVIDIA argues that the next phase of industrial automation will be driven by Physical AI, combining realistic simulation, synthetic data and continuous learning to create robots that can adapt to changing production environments.
Transport for London has licensed Wayve's camera-only, mapless fleet for Uber rides — putting a homegrown AV champion ahead of Waymo in the capital, and staking the UK's autonomy debut on the riskier of the sector's two philosophies.
Humanoids, quadrupeds and AMRs join drones and routers on the Covered List, cutting new foreign-built models off from the certification they need to be sold in America. For US integrators built on cheap Chinese platforms, the procurement maths just changed.
No GPS, no comms, no rescue: polar science has quietly become the proving ground for autonomous underwater vehicles — and the lessons flowing out of Greenland and Antarctica are the same ones navies are paying for.
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![Aurora plans to deploy its second-generation driverless trucks across its commercial network, which currently encompasses 10 driverless routes throughout the U.S. Sun Belt. [Credit: Aurora]](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhuodddzw/image/upload/v1786100569/Aurora_ad2_jskuom.jpg)
