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Eight Knot Closes First Tranche of ¥450M Series A for Autonomous Ships — Sep 26, 2026 — Osaka's Eight Knot has closed the first close of a ¥450M Series A led by ITOCHU Technology Ventures and Nissei Capital to scale its AI CAPTAIN autonom...Aurora Aims For 20 Driverless Trucks A Week As DaaS Pivot Takes Shape — Sep 26, 2026 — 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...Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 Launches Sept 24 With ADS 5, Books 20K Orders In A Day — Sep 21, 2026 — The Dongfeng-Huawei Epicland X9 launches September 24 from 299,800 yuan, ships Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 with four LiDAR units standard, and has already bo...Nio 3rd-Gen ES8 Hits 150,000 Deliveries In One Year, Sweeps China’s Premium SUV Chart — Sep 21, 2026 — Nio’s third-gen ES8 reached 150,000 cumulative deliveries on September 20, 2026, exactly one year after launch, locking in a lead in China’s 400,000-y...Volkswagen Launches ID.AURA T6, Its First LiDAR-Equipped EV, In China From 9,240 — Sep 21, 2026 — Volkswagen has launched the ID.AURA T6 in China from 129,900 yuan (~9,240), its first production EV with a 192-channel LiDAR wired to a Horizon Roboti...SOCOM Picks Sea Machines SM300-SP Autonomy Kits To Convert Local Boats Into USVs — Sep 17, 2026 — U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Sea Machines Robotics a five-year IDIQ for SM300-SP autonomy kits, letting operators turn locally sourced...Stratom Wins US Army TALUS Contract For Contested Logistics — Aug 16, 2026 — The U.S. Army has picked a Stratom-led team of Forterra, ND Defense, GS Engineering and Waltonen to build TALUS, a modular autonomous distribution sys...Waymo Kills Dallas Waitlist, Opens Robotaxis To Anyone — Aug 16, 2026 — Waymo dropped its Dallas robotaxi waitlist on August 4, 2026, opening the fully driverless service to any rider on the Waymo app after 150,000 people...Mistral AI Unveils Robostral Navigate, a Single-Camera Robotics Model — Jul 8, 2026 — Paris-based Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter vision-language model that lets robots navigate unseen indoor and outdoor s...Waymo Launches Driverless Rides In San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa And Denver — Jul 8, 2026 — Alphabets Waymo is starting rider-only autonomous trips in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa and Denver for its own employees, using the sixth-generation Oj...Tesla Launches Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides In Miami, First Beyond Texas & California — Jul 7, 2026 — Tesla's Robotaxi service went live in Miami on July 3, running fully unsupervised Model Ys across a 20-square-mile geofence in the first market outsid...Waymo Begins Autonomous Testing on London's Streets — Jun 27, 2026 — Waymo has begun autonomous testing on London's public roads with safety operators aboard, a key step toward its first commercial robotaxi service outs...CaoCao and K2 to Launch First Abu Dhabi Robotaxi Fleet in 2026 — Jun 26, 2026 — CaoCao has signed a strategic agreement with Abu Dhabi government-owned AI firm K2 to deploy its first UAE robotaxi fleet, with testing in Abu Dhabi s...Zoox Unveils Redesigned Robotaxi as It Eyes Commercial Launch — Jun 25, 2026 — Amazon's Zoox has revealed a redesigned robotaxi with comfort and communication upgrades, built for volume production in Hayward as it awaits federal...Innoviz LiDAR Powers Mobileye Drive Robotaxi as Fleet Scales — Jun 24, 2026 — Innoviz confirmed nine of its InnovizTwo LiDARs sit in every Mobileye Drive robotaxi, a program that could need more than 150,000 units as Mobileye sc...Maritime Robotics Raises €28M Led by MS+PARTNERS to Scale Autonomous Sea Drones — Jun 15, 2026 — Norway's Maritime Robotics has secured a €28 million ($32.5M) growth investment led by London-based MS+PARTNERS to scale Otter and Mariner USV manufac...Uber AV Labs To Roll Out 500 Sensor-Packed Ioniq 5s For Robotaxi Partners — Jun 6, 2026 — 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...Kodiak AI Goes International With West Fraser Alberta Logging Pilot — Jun 1, 2026 — Kodiak AI is launching its first international autonomous trucking operations in Alberta and its first foray into the logging industry through a pilot...Aurora and McLane Go Fully Driverless on Dallas-Houston Route — Jun 1, 2026 — Aurora Innovation has transitioned its McLane Company freight service on the Dallas-Houston corridor to fully driverless operation after a supervised...Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Shrinks to 20 as Waymo Pulls Further Ahead — May 28, 2026 — Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi fleet has shrunk to 20 active vehicles and its total ride-hailing fleet has dropped to 34, even as Waymo expands to abou...