Aurora Innovation, Inc. News
Latest Aurora Innovation, Inc. news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $2B raised. 17 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Aurora Innovation, Inc.
Aurora Innovation, Inc. develops self-driving vehicle technology for the freight and transportation industry. Its core product, the Aurora Driver, is an autonomous driving system combining lidar, radar, cameras, software, and onboard computing that can be installed in trucks and other vehicles. The company was founded in 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Chris Urmson (former CTO of Google's self-driving project, now Waymo), Sterling Anderson (former head of Tesla Autopilot), and Drew Bagnell (former Uber ATG autonomy lead).
In December 2020, Aurora acquired Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG) self-driving unit, with Uber making a $400 million investment in Aurora and taking roughly a 26% equity stake in the combined company. Aurora became a publicly traded company on Nasdaq in November 2021 through a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y, accompanied by a $1 billion PIPE investment from investors including T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, Sequoia Capital, Uber, PACCAR, and Volvo Group.
Aurora focuses commercially on autonomous heavy-duty trucking, launching driverless (no safety driver) truck operations on Texas highways in 2024 and expanding its "Transport as a Service" network with freight and logistics partners including FedEx, Werner, Schneider, Ryder, Uber Freight, Hirschbach, Volvo Trucks, and PACCAR.
Key facts
Products by Aurora Innovation, Inc.
- Aurora Driver (Software, 2017) — An autonomous driving platform combining lidar, radar, cameras, software, and onboard computing used to operate self-driving trucks.
- FirstLight Lidar (Hardware, 2021) — A long-range lidar sensor developed by Aurora for detecting objects at highway speeds and distances.
Funding rounds
- IPO — $1B — 2021
- Strategic — $400M — 2021 — led by Uber
- Series B — $530M — 2019 — led by Sequoia Capital
- Series A — $90M — 2018 — led by Greylock Partners, Index Ventures
Latest Aurora Innovation, Inc. news
- Humble Robotics Raises $51M to Build Cabless Electric Trucks That Drive Themselves — Ex-Apple and Uber engineer Eyal Cohen's startup hit $75M in total funding in under a year, betting that designing the truck and its autonomy stack tog...
- Kodiak's Safety Score Hits 99%, Putting Driverless Trucks on I-45 by Year's End — Kodiak AI says its Autonomy Readiness Measure, a score tracking how complete its driverless safety case is, reached 99% in October, putting an unsuper...
- Aurora Aims For 20 Driverless Trucks A Week As DaaS Pivot Takes Shape — CEO Chris Urmson told a Morgan Stanley conference Aurora is spinning up 20 driverless-truck deliveries a week, cutting hardware costs in half and shif...
- Autonomous Solutions Puts 255,000 Acres Of Florida Sugarcane On Autopilot With John Deere — Utah-based Autonomous Solutions has stood up what it calls the largest autonomous vehicle fleet in the history of American sugarcane farming with U.S....
- Aurora Signs Charger Logistics For Driverless Dallas-Laredo Hauls — Aurora Innovation added Charger Logistics as a customer for its second-generation driverless trucks, kicking off commercial autonomous hauls on the Da...
- Charles Schwab Leads Provable Markets Series B For Aurora Securities-Finance Platform — Charles Schwab has led a Series B round in Provable Markets, with new investment from DTCC, to accelerate the Aurora alternative trading system as sec...
- Terminal Raises $20M Series A To Become The Telematics Data Layer For Fleets And Insurers — Toronto-based Terminal has closed a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures with participation from Intact Private Capital, Penske, Y Combinator and Way...
- Aurora Signs Charger Logistics To Run Driverless Trucks On Dallas-Laredo Sun Belt Lane — Aurora Innovation added Charger Logistics as a customer for its second-generation driverless truck on July 28, 2026, starting on the Dallas–Laredo cor...
- Rep. Mullin Files Federal AV Emergency Response Bill After Waymo San Francisco Chaos — Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.) introduced the AV Emergency Response Coordination Act on July 28, 2026, directing NHTSA to set national protocols, a 24/7...
- AVI-SPL, Volvo Autonomous Solutions Launch Dallas-Houston Driverless Freight — AVI-SPL is putting high-value AV freight on Volvo Autonomous Solutions' Aurora Driver-powered VNL Autonomous trucks between Dallas and Houston, one of...
- California's Tough New AV Rules Kick In: Tickets, Trucks and Geofences — California's sweeping autonomous vehicle regulations enter force, letting police cite driverless cars from July 1, opening the state to heavy-duty AV...
- Aurora And Hirschbach Sign MoU For 500 Driverless Trucks From 2027 — Aurora Innovation and Iowa-based reefer carrier Hirschbach signed an MoU for Hirschbach to own 500 Aurora Driver-powered autonomous trucks from 2027,...
- Volvo Targets $3B Autonomous Truck Business In Five Years, 300+ Rigs By 2027 — Volvo AB used its June 10 investor meeting to lay out its clearest roadmap yet for driverless trucking, targeting near-$3 billion in autonomous revenu...
- Uber AV Labs To Roll Out 500 Sensor-Packed Ioniq 5s For Robotaxi Partners — Uber's new AV Labs division will deploy 500 sensor-equipped Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles globally in 2026, generating 2 million miles of training data per...
- Aurora and Volvo Launch 200-Mile Dallas–Oklahoma City Autonomous Truck Route — Aurora Innovation and Volvo Autonomous Solutions have launched a new 200-mile Dallas–Oklahoma City autonomous freight route, expanding their joint net...
- Aurora and McLane Go Fully Driverless on Dallas-Houston Route — Aurora Innovation has transitioned its McLane Company freight service on the Dallas-Houston corridor to fully driverless operation after a supervised...
- Major Robotaxi Companies Refuse to Disclose Remote Assistance Data in Senate Probe — Seven leading autonomous vehicle companies declined to provide Senator Ed Markey with data on how frequently their self-driving vehicles require human...