Autonomous Vehicles

Drone stocks held up during Tuesday's Nasdaq sell-off, with Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ:RCAT) closing down 2%, Ondas Holdings (NASDAQ:ONDS) up 1%, and AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV) falling roughly 4% to around $174, as the iS…

Russian tanks equipped with the new Arena-M active protection system faced Ukrainian drone attacks in Donetsk Oblast on July 22, 2026, and were only partially successful, as Ukrainian forces destroyed at least seven T-72…

Joby Aviation's electric air taxi flight simulator landed at San Jose Mineta International Airport, where San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan piloted a successful 10-minute simulated flight on Tuesday, the eve of National Aviation…

Robotics and lidar stocks fell sharply Tuesday as the AI trade cooled, with Ouster down 10% to $43, Aeva Technologies down 12% to $21, and Symbotic down 4% to $41. The sell-off followed reports that Anthropic's annualize…

Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis across North America, tripling its electric-truck fleet, with deployments starting in September 2026 and continuing over 24 months. The trucks will serve Amazon and other customers…

Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology founded in 2017, is hiring a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Geometric Vision in Sunnyvale, offering a salary of $407k–460k/yr. The role involves building 3D foundatio…

Helsing, a defense technology company developing AI-enabled capabilities, is hiring a Software Engineer, Rust for its Washington, DC office to work on Altra, its AI-powered drone software platform. The role involves desi…

Helsing, a defense technology company developing AI-enabled drone software, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for Detection and Tracking in Washington, DC, to own the detection and tracking models powering its Altra …

Waymo has received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to cover much of California's major urban areas, including cities in Northern and Southern Califor…

A Tesla Robotaxi operating without a safety monitor drove through a row of bollards in Austin, Texas, on Monday, less than a month after Tesla's head of AI claimed the program had an 'impeccable safety record' with 'zero…

Tesla received its largest order yet for the all-electric Class 8 Semi: a 500-unit order from Swedish trucking company Einride AB, announced on August 18, 2026. Einride will deploy the Semis on its Saga AI fleet intellig…

Fort Robotics, a Philadelphia-based physical AI safety firm, plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FROB via a merger with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., valuing the combined company at approximately $…

Einride AB plans to deploy 500 Tesla electric trucks across its North American operations over the next two years, starting in September 2026, in what would be the largest rollout of heavy-duty electric vehicles to date.…

Pony AI's robotaxi revenue hit a quarterly record of $12.1 million in Q2 2026, a 691.2% year-over-year increase, now accounting for 33% of total revenue. Total revenue rose 68.8% to $36.2 million, driven by an 849.3% sur…

Grounded EVs, a Detroit-based startup founded by SpaceX alum Sam Shapiro, announced on August 18 that it secured $5 million in seed funding to expand beyond its electric RVs into electric box trucks, targeting a market s…

China is beginning to slow its artificial intelligence rollout, as evidenced by a late April court ruling that an AI firm could not dismiss an employee solely due to automation, a nationwide suspension of new autonomous-…

Neil Warner traded his Tesla Model Y Performance for a Polestar 4 Long Range Dual Motor in February 2025, citing the Polestar's quieter ride, refined interior, and one-pedal driving as key reasons. Warner paid about 35% …

SoftBank Group invested $200 million in Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based startup developing autonomous software for construction machinery, in a Series A round announced Monday. The investment follows SoftBank's broader p…

Nigeria-based defense technology startup Terra Industries has raised $52 million in what it says is the largest-ever seed funding round for an African defense tech company. The company develops automated security systems…

Uber Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald said on the 20VC podcast that the company's scale—nearly $250 billion in annualized gross bookings—makes it harder to justify new business bets, as the core business consumes…