Company · United States

Aurora Innovation

Public-road autonomy

Headquarters: United States
Sectors: Vehicles
Technology: Autonomous trucking, self-driving systems
Type: Software / operator
Website: aurora.tech

Latest coverage

News / AI

Aurora's driverless trucks cleared 440,000 miles. It also lost $270m doing it

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.

Rob Polli7 Aug 20263 min

Interview / AI

Profile: Chris Urmson, the man who has been building self-driving since before it was an industry

He won the DARPA challenge, built what became Waymo, then left to bet that the future of autonomy was freight, not taxis. Two decades in, Aurora's driverless trucks are running — and Urmson's long game is finally being marked.

Rob Polli30 Jul 20264 min

In pictures

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]

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