Fleets and Trucks

The computing efficiency of autonomous vehicles must rise to prevent a major rise in their carbon footprint.

Just after the company showed its Waabi Driver-controlled autonomous truck for the first time, Volvo Group Venture Capital made a strategic investment in the company, joining other investors including Khosla Ventures, Uber, Radical Ventures, 8VC, OMERS Ventures, and BDC that believe in its approach.

The autonomous mover from the new Benteler vehicle brand, which had its world premiere at CES 2023, combines sustainability, inclusion, comfort, and safety with help from Pininfarina, Mobileye, Cognizant Mobility, and Beep, with a U.S. production start planned for the end of 2025. 

From its first client, a bakery, Faction aims to expand into other metro areas this year.

New AI-driven technology helps autonomous trucks perform key cargo yard operation.

Celebrating its 55th anniversary at CES 2023, Italdesign unveiled the Climb-E, for which the design house was responsible for horizontal mobility, partners Schindler for vertical mobility and Politecnico di Torino for architectural integration, and the mobility concept featuring Easyrain’s safety-system technologies.

The new trials are part of Dubai’s larger autonomous public vehicle ambitions.

Two battery-powered autonomous trucks will help transport containers in the United Kingdom’s biggest, busiest port.

In the two-year, $50-million project, Kodiak will develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other high-risk missions.

The University of Tulsa is the latest campus to offer robot delivery service, adding to a Grubhub partnership announced in October for the pioneer that “invented the delivery robot in 2014.”