Aurora has launched its second-generation driverless trucks in the USA and announced plans to deploy the new fleet across its commercial network, which currently encompasses 10 driverless routes throughout the US Sun Belt.

Aurora deployed Class 8 trucks powered by the Aurora Driver, its self-driving system, on public roads last year. As of the end of June, the Aurora Driver has completed nearly 440,000 driverless miles. The company’s route expansion is also driving significant commercial momentum, underscored by a customer’s recent plan to purchase 500 Aurora Driver-powered trucks.

“Last year’s driverless launch proved our technology could operate safely on public roads – our new platform now provides the foundation to deliver at scale,” said Chris Urmson, CEO and co-founder of Aurora.

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Tech and AI engineering specialist HTEC and autonomous vehicle company Embotech have announced that they are to collaborate on AVs for industrial logistics, with Embotech’s autonomous driving solutions deployed across vehicle platforms, customer programs and industrial sites.

The partnership comes as Embotech’s autonomous driving solutions are being adopted across a growing number of vehicle platforms and industrial sites, with efficient scaling of deployments becoming as important as continued technology development.

Under the agreement, HTEC will contribute engineering capacity across onboard software, vehicle integration, connectivity and system validation, enabling Embotech to scale its autonomous driving solutions while retaining control of its autonomy platform, certified safety architecture and product roadmap.

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Physical AI systems must be capable of generalizing across new situations and tasks, applying learned knowledge reliably and safely in unfamiliar conditions. Waabi has announced the results of its zero-shot transfer, marking a significant step toward scalable autonomous vehicle deployment.

Generalization in self-driving takes two distinct forms.

The first is the ability to generalize across environments and behaviors, applying knowledge and skills safely across different operational design domains (ODDs), from highways to dense urban streets, varying traffic patterns, road geometries and driving behaviors. Waabi’s Driver system addresses this through an end-to-end AI approach with reasoning capabilities that, in Q1 2025, it expanded beyond highway operation to complex urban surface streets.

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PepsiCo and Gatik have announced a multiyear strategic partnership to bring autonomous freight into PepsiCo’s North America food and beverage supply chain.

For PepsiCo, the partnership expands delivery capacity and supports improved consistency and customer service across its US supply chain. The partnership is focused on the company’s regional transportation networks, where products move daily from site to site.

“Serving our vast network of customers requires a supply chain that is safe, reliable and built for the future,” said Jim Farrell, senior vice president of supply chain at PepsiCo North America. “Gatik is already operating inside our networks and brings the autonomous freight technology, commercial experience and scale we need to strengthen service, add capacity and move products more consistently for our customers.”

Gatik’s autonomous trucks are designed for end-to-end deliveries on highways and surface streets, with route-planning capabilities developed for regional logistics networks involving hundreds of pickup and drop-off locations.

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Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Boliden have completed an autonomous transportation project at Boliden’s Garpenberg site in Sweden.

The project was the first step under the memorandum of understanding signed by Volvo and Boliden in 2023 and saw material moved from an on-site quarry on Boliden premises and then used to reinforce a local dam and heighten the dam wall. In total, close to 700,000 metric tons of rock fill material were transported autonomously. Volvo’s autonomous haulage system ran more than 11,000 transportation cycles covering 56,000km.

“Autonomy has clear benefits for the mining industry, especially when it comes to removing people from hazardous environments and improving the safety and efficiency of operations,” said Ingo Stürmer, CTO at Volvo Autonomous Solutions.

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The next chapter of autonomous trucking won’t be won by technology alone, it will be won by operators who know how to scale it, said Bot Auto, which has announced the appointment of Brett Suma as president and chief operating officer.

Suma brings nearly 30 years of freight industry experience, having built his career from the ground up at Knight Transportation before founding Loadsmith and then TrailerHawk.ai, a trailer technology company acquired by Wabash in 2025.

He joins Bot Auto alongside Knight, Loadsmith and TrailerHawk.ai colleagues David Stemm, who will become vice president of commercial operations at Bot Auto, and Jessica Kane, who is taking on the role of vice president of commercial finance.

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California-headquartered autonomous mobility specialist Kodiak AI has announced that it is to begin international operations with a new pilot operation at West Fraser Timber‘s log-hauling operations in Alberta, Canada, where trucks will be deployed equipped with its Kodiak Driver AI-powered autonomous driving system.

In the initial phase of work, Kodiak will pilot the use of its self-driving technology to transport timber from forest sites to one of West Fraser’s Alberta processing facilities in Western Canada later this year. Results of the pilot will be used to inform any future long-term deployment of Kodiak Driver-equipped trucks for commercial driverless operations.

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Bosch has begun supplying hardware components to Kodiak AI as part of their collaboration on autonomous driving technology.

Kodiak is testing and validating camera samples from Bosch and has integrated early prototype sensors into its SensorPods, which house autonomous driving hardware. The company is also evaluating Bosch vehicle actuation components as part of ongoing development and testing.

Since announcing their collaboration in January 2026, Bosch and Kodiak AI have progressed from strategic alignment to joint engineering work.

“The quick transition to tangible engineering progress underscores the velocity behind this collaboration,” said Don Burnette, founder and CEO, Kodiak AI.

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Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has unveiled a fleet of zero-emission autonomous trucks in Hong Kong.

The AI-powered innovation is designed for efficient container transportation at all terminals, and supports the city’s objectives of smarter and greener port terminal operations.

The launch ceremony was officiated by Liu Chun San, undersecretary for transport and logistics in the HKSAR government and Ivor Chow, CEO of HPH Trust and managing director of Hongkong International Terminals (HIT).

The autonomous truck (AT) fleet vehicles, designed without a driver’s cab, can operate alongside conventional vehicles in a mixed-traffic mode called ‘true’.

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A new report commissioned by Aurora and conducted by the Steer Group has found that autonomous freight is already contributing billions to the US$1tn US trucking industry, with even greater economic potential expected over the next decade. In response, Aurora Innovation is committing US$1m to its Aurora Works initiative to help prepare the US workforce.

The analysis, titled Economic Impacts of Self-Driving Freight in the US,  highlights that autonomous trucking, despite being in early stages of deployment, currently supports 17,000 jobs and US$3.3bn in total economic output.

The report projects that by 2035, autonomous trucking will contribute US$70bn to US GDP, becoming a highly efficient growth driver for long-haul transportation.

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