Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing

Data collected and analyzed by Obi suggest a shift is underway.

Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business

A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.’s bid by $5 million.

Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners

Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It’s a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

Your robot could obey a sign, not you, thanks to AI robot prompt injection

AI robot prompt injection is no longer just a screen-level problem. Researchers demonstrate that a robot can be steered off-task by text placed in the physical world, the kind of message a human might walk past without a second thought. The attack does…

New York governor clears path for robotaxis everywhere, with one notable exception

New York City will be a notable exclusion from proposed legislation to legalize commercial robotaxis across the state.

Motional puts AI at center of robotaxi reboot as it targets 2026 for driverless service

Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’

Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.

This Engineer Builds Bespoke Accordions and Autonomous Car Systems
This Engineer Builds Bespoke Accordions and Autonomous Car Systems

When Sergey Antonovich rediscovered a childhood passion for music, he found an unexpected application for his skills as an embedded systems engineer: building bespoke digital accordions.Antonovich admits the accordion isn’t the coolest instrument. It …