Autonomous Vehicles

Latest: Reliable Robotics Lands $115M Series D Extension at $1B+ Valuation to Push Autonomous Flight Toward FAA Certification · techcrunch.com, Oct 20, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: autonomous vehicle, self-driving, robo-taxi

6 AI Weekly issues and 86 live stories from the last 30 days mention Autonomous Vehicles.

7 total mentions 0/20 recent issues peak 0/issue tracked since 2026-02-19

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Live Stories (86)

Reliable Robotics Lands $115M Series D Extension at $1B+ Valuation to Push Autonomous Flight Toward FAA Certification

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

Chinese Robovan Maker Neolix Pulls $400M Series E Led by Boyu, Adds Alibaba AEF to Cap Table

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

Waymo Targets 8K Robotaxis by Year-End and 20K by End of 2027, Backed by $5B Non-Recourse Debt

semafor.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 25

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian Builds Own In-Vehicle AI Models and 5nm Autonomy Chip With Arm and TSMC

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-18 · Score: 17

Ninth Circuit Decertifies Tesla FSD Class Action, Finds Buyers Could Skip the Autopilot Page

news.bloomberglaw.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 25

Li Auto's MHX Technology Chip Subsidiary Raises RMB 1.625B ($242M) at $2.5B Valuation to Push M100 Beyond Cars

cnevpost.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 22

Waymo Picks Toronto With Element Fleet for 2028 Canada Robotaxi Debut

reuters.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 21

Bedrock Robotics Said to Be Raising $600M Series C at $3.5B Pre-Money for Autonomous Construction Vehicles Chasing Data-Center Backlog

axios.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 23

Applied Intuition Fields Offers at $30B Valuation, Doubling Its June $15B as AV Software Pushes Into Defense

theinformation.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 22

Tesla Renames Full Self-Driving to 'Tesla Assisted Driving' Across Europe After German Minister Pushback

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 22

Parallel Systems Lands $100M Series C From AVP for Autonomous Electric Freight Trains Under 500 Miles

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-07 · Score: 22

Waymo Upsizes Inaugural Private Debt Deal to $5B, Pimco and Blackstone Lead at 5.25pp Over Benchmark

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-06 · Score: 22

Newsom Signs California SB 1246, Fines Robotaxis Up to $10,000 for Blocking First Responders Over 30 Minutes

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-04 · Score: 22

404 Media: Axiom Math Trio Wires GPT-6 Astra to a Toyota Corolla and Runs a Cone Course

404media.co · 2026-09-29 · Score: 21

Physical-AI Chip Startup SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation, Co-Led by Fidelity and Amplify

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 23

NHTSA Opens Federal Probe Into Comma.ai Aftermarket ADAS After Three Deaths, 11 Injuries Across Five Crashes

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 22

Waymo Launches Transit Rewards With Visa, Pays $2.85 in Waymo Cash for Bay Area Multi-Modal Trips

waymo.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 17

Zipline in Talks to Raise ~$1B at ~$20B Valuation, Nearly Tripling Its January Mark

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 21

May Mobility to Go Public via $1.4B ACP SPAC, Raising Up to $337M for Autonomous Ride-Hail

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 21

NYT: Amazon's Zoox Leans on Influencers, Community Events and Ads to Chase Waymo in San Francisco

nytimes.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 18

Lyft Turns On Waymo Robotaxi Matching in Nashville, Its Second US City

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 17

Poseidon Aerospace Lands $60M Series A for Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft, First Test Flight by Year-End

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 18

Alibaba Ships Qwen-Drive-1.0, an Apache-2.0 4B Vision-Language Model for Autonomous Driving

technode.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 26

FT: Kalanick's Atoms Turns to Robotaxi Tech After Pronto Buy, Uber Confirms $100M Investment

ft.com · 2026-09-05 · Score: 22

NHTSA Opens Probe Into Tesla's Cybercab After Austin Debut Without Steering Wheels or Pedals

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 26

PlusAI Goes Public via $800M Pre-Money SPAC Merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III

stocktitan.net · 2026-09-03 · Score: 22

FT: Uber Aligns With Driver Unions to Slow Robotaxi Rollout, Reversing Decade of Labor Antagonism

ft.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 21

Uber and Wayve Launch London's First Commercial Robotaxi Service With Ford Mustang Mach-E Fleet

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

Ex-Apple Face ID Team's Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B to Build a 'Visual Brain' for Robots

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

Uber to Cut 3,300 Jobs — 10% of Staff — to Fund $10B Robotaxi Push

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa; Zoox Begins Houston and San Diego Testing

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 23

Tesla Tells NHTSA Driver-Assist Was 'Verified Engaged' in Fatal 104mph Clute, Texas Crash

electrek.co · 2026-08-31 · Score: 27

Autonomous Trucking Startup Gatik Raises $200M Led by QIA and Koch, Two Months After PepsiCo Deal

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 25

Waymo Plans Munich Robotaxi Launch by End of 2027, Its First European Market

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 23

India's Airbound Bags $37M Series A Led by Greenoaks for Rocket-Like Autonomous Cargo Drones

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 19

Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm Ojai ASIC With 1,000+ TOPS to Preprocess Its 13 Robotaxi Cameras

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-23 · Score: 27

Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis From Tesla, Waymo and Uber for Clark County

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-21 · Score: 27

Amazon to Expand Prime Air Drone Delivery to Chicago, Atlanta and Three More Metros, Targeting ~500 Cities by Year-End

engadget.com · 2026-08-19 · Score: 18

Crunchbase: Physical AI Startups Raised $47.4B Across 521 Deals in H1 2026, Nearly 2x H1 2025

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-08-18 · Score: 22

Terra Industries Closes $52M Seed From 8VC to Build Defense Manufacturing for the Global South

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-17 · Score: 18

Pony.ai and Uber Expand Partnership to Deploy Over 2,000 Robotaxis Across Europe

prnewswire.com · 2026-08-14 · Score: 25

California PUC Clears Waymo to Charge for Robotaxi Rides Across 18 Counties Including LA and San Diego

electrek.co · 2026-08-14 · Score: 26

Uber Divests From Serve Robotics in Q2 as Delivery-Robot Partnership Unravels

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 20

NYT: Waymo's Fleet Grew From 700 to Nearly 4,000 Robotaxis as Recalls and Edge-Case Failures Pile Up

nytimes.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 22

ALERT Amazon's Zoox Begins Charging for Robotaxi Rides in Las Vegas on August 10, First Paid Service

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 28

Uber Commits $10B+ to Roll Out 120K Driverless Vehicles Across 15+ Cities in 2026

cnbc.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 26

Moove Raises $250M at $2.1B Led by Mubadala to Build 'Nests' for Waymo Robotaxi Fleets

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 21

TfL Grants Wayve Robotaxis Private Hire Licenses, Clearing Uber's London Trial for Launch

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 22

Waymo opens driverless robotaxis to all Dallas residents, five months after invite-only launch

waymo.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 18

Nvidia Open-Sources Alpamayo 2 Super, a Frontier Reasoning Model for Robotaxis and AVs

blogs.nvidia.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 26

NXP in Talks to Buy Edge-AI Chipmaker Ambarella, ~$3.3B Market Cap; AMBA Jumps 19%

ft.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 22

Amazon's Zoox Wins First US Approval for Paid Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis, Up to 5,000 Vehicles Over Two Years

reuters.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 23

Waymo Resumes Freeway Robotaxi Trips After Two-Month Construction-Zone Suspension, Starting in Phoenix

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 24

Qualcomm Wins Decade-Long BMW Deal to Supply Snapdragon Cockpit and Ride Chips for Neue Klasse EVs

stocktitan.net · 2026-07-29 · Score: 19

Baidu Begins London Robotaxi Tests With Lyft-Freenow Partnership, Public Service Planned for 2027

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 26

FT: Waymo Weighs Ending Its Uber Robotaxi Partnership as Regulatory Lobbying Fight Escalates

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-24 · Score: 23

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years as Company Pivots to Robotaxis and Humanoids

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 26

Ford Says Apple Software Will Drive Autonomous Features in Next-Gen EVs Using Apple Maps

nytimes.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 17

China Resumes Issuing Robotaxi Permits After Months-Long Freeze Triggered by Baidu's Wuhan Outage

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-23 · Score: 23

Nio's Shenji Chip Unit Shows Three-Chip AI Lineup at WAIC 2026 Covering Driving, Robots and Agent Inference

cnevpost.com · 2026-07-17 · Score: 18

Nvidia Automotive Chief Xinzhou Wu Tells The Verge He Meets Weekly to Fight Colleagues for GPU Access, Says Mainstream Level 4 Autonomy Arrives in Consumer Cars in Under 5 Years and Mercedes ADAS Ships Fleet-Wide by End of 2026

theverge.com · 2026-07-13 · Score: 19

Wired Public Records Investigation: Uber Lobbyists Push State Laws Requiring 85% Human-Driver Rides for Three Years — Building 'Hybrid Network' Regulatory Moat Against Waymo and Tesla

wired.com · 2026-07-12 · Score: 21

NHTSA Chief Jonathan Morrison Issues 'Robotaxi Ultimatum' — Demands AV Companies Submit First-Responder Interaction Fixes by End of July, Calls Emergency Scenes 'Not an Edge Case'

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-12 · Score: 22

UK Maritime-Defence AI Startup Kraken Technology Hits Unicorn Status With $175M Series B — DTCP Leads, Backers Include NATO Innovation Fund, Rheinmetall, British Business Bank

tech.eu · 2026-07-09 · Score: 25

Waymo Launches Fully Autonomous Service in Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Tampa — Adds Hyundai IONIQ 5 as First New Vehicle Platform for 6th-Gen Driver

waymo.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 26

WildCity Paper: May Mobility + NYU + Nvidia + Stanford Release First City-Scale Multimodal Dataset — 18 Autonomous-Fleet Trajectories Averaging 83.7km Each Enable Closed-Loop Urban Digital Twins

huggingface.co · 2026-07-08 · Score: 17

GM- and Tencent-Backed Momenta Debuts Flat in Hong Kong After $751M IPO — $9B Valuation, Muted Reception Tests China AV Investor Appetite

cnbc.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 25

CNBC: Chinese Lidar Maker Hesai Expands in US Despite Pentagon Blacklist via Deeper Nvidia Partnership — Security Officials Warn of Cyber, Data-Backdoor Risks in Autonomous Vehicles

cnbc.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 22

ALERT Forterra Deploys 100+ Autonomous Lancer UGVs in Ukraine, Logging 1,100+ Combat Missions in Nine Months — Largest US Autonomous Ground Vehicle Deployment Ever

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 28

Wayve Becomes First Major Test of London Stock Exchange's New Private Securities Market — Closed Auction July 8 to Sell $85M in Employee Shares at $8.5B Valuation

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 21

FT: BYD, Nio, and Other Chinese Carmakers Rush to Design In-House AI Chips as Beijing Presses for Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency

ft.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 22

Waymo and Uber Quietly End Phoenix Robotaxi Partnership After Three Years — Uber Says It's Already Lining Up a Different Autonomous Vehicle Partner in the City

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 20

Momenta Launches $751M Hong Kong IPO With Mercedes-Benz, BlackRock as Cornerstones — Level 4 Robotaxi Services in Abu Dhabi and Munich Planned With Uber

reuters.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 23

Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating Brake Pedal Requirement for Fully Autonomous Vehicles — Tesla Cybercab Among Primary Beneficiaries

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 24

FT Analysis: China's Shrinking Working-Age Population Is Accelerating Consensus to Deploy Embodied AI Robots Into Every Available Role as Fast as Possible

ft.com · 2026-06-25 · Score: 22

NHTSA Opens Federal Probe Into Tesla Model 3 Fatal Crash in Katy, Texas After Driver Claims Autopilot Was Engaged — Tesla Disputes Account

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-22 · Score: 20

Road to Autonomy Index Ranks Baidu Apollo Go First in Global Robotaxis, With Three Chinese AV Firms in Top Five

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-21 · Score: 19

Go Inc. Eyes Robotaxis and Acquisitions After Japan's Biggest IPO of 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-19 · Score: 18

Momenta Receives Chinese Regulator Approval for Hong Kong IPO as US Listing Plan Lapses — GM- and Toyota-Backed AV Startup Targets $1B+ Raise, WSJ Cites ~$9B Valuation

cnevpost.com · 2026-06-18 · Score: 24

ALERT Waymo Recalls 3,871 Robotaxis in Sixth Safety Action — Software Flaw Drove Fleet Into Active Freeway Construction Zones 13 Times at Speed

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-18 · Score: 29

Decart Launches Oasis 3 World Model for AV Simulation — Hours of Photorealistic Driving at $0.02/Second With Physics Caveats

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 20

Einride Lists on Nasdaq at $1.35B — 73% Below $5B Bank Discussions — as Autonomous Freight Goes Public via SPAC

thenextweb.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 23

Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Stuck at 59 Vehicles as Musk's 1,000-Car Year-End Target Requires 17× Expansion in Seven Months

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 23

Waymo Publishes 'Reference Driver' Model in Nature Communications — Active Inference Benchmark Simulates Human Crash Anticipation at Scale

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 17

Fully Autonomous Drones Have Killed Human Soldiers for the First Time

newscientist.com · 2026-06-10 · Score: 23

China's National Data Administration Unveils Nationwide AI Training Data Plan — Validated Industry Datasets Across Nine Sectors by 2028, Explicitly Targeting Embodied AI, Autonomous Driving, and Biomanufacturing

scmp.com · 2026-06-09 · Score: 22

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2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Robotics: capex curve is finally bending toward physical AI

2026-04-25 · 1 mentions

World Models: Forrester just made physical AI Tier 1

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

Robotics: A humanoid you can buy for $42,000

2026-04-18 · 1 mentions

#459 Issue #459: Is Elon Musk the worst in Tech?

2026-01-13 · 1 mentions

#466 Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition

2026-02-19 · 1 mentions