Episode features conversations with two VC’s and explores robotics and AI investment trends.

With rapidly expanding operations across several cities, Waymo is now taking on a partner to help it better manage its fleet operations.

AWS and NVIDIA said that Isaac Sim on Amazon Web Services can significantly accelerate and scale robot simulation and AI training.

Universal Field Robots products will widen the ability of Sandvik’s AutoMine to integrate with third-party equipment.

Andrew Clare, CTO of Nuro, discusses the current state of self-driving vehicles and software and the road to Level 5 autonomy.

Imagry has developed hardware-agnostic systems to provide Level 4 autonomy to buses with time to market in mind.

The EDU program offers subscribers full access to Falcon’s comprehensive feature set, alongside community resources developed by Duality AI.

ANELLO Photonics, which has developed compact navigation and positioning for autonomous systems, has closed its Series B round.

With this expanded deployment of zero-occupant vehicles, the company said Nuro Driver is ready to autonomously transport people and goods.

ABB Robotics is leveraging AI to help make robotics smarter and easier to setup and program across all of the industries served by ABB.

Zenoh is a protocol that ZettaScale says works with DDS and offers data throughput from embedded compute to the cloud.

LOXO, which has already successfully demonstrated autonomous deliveries with its software and vehicles, is opening an office in Munich.

Vecna Robotics has named autonomous vehicle executive Karl Iagnemma as its new CEO shortly after the release of its CaseFlow product.

Waymo’s robotaxi service currently covers 80 square miles of LA County. Waymo said it intends to grow its service area in the future.

Zoox also expanded its geofence in Las Vegas, saying it will launch a public service there in early 2025. 

DeepRoute.ai announced strategic funding led by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor to develop a full self-driving stack.

WeRide currently holds autonomous driving licenses in China, the UAE, Singapore, and the U.S., and it has operations in over 30 cities.

Waymo said it will continue scaling its robotaxis to more riders and to support a variety of business applications over time.

With over $250 million in equity capital raised to date, Outrider said it is working closely with customers to launch and scale its service.

Horizon Robotics provides advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) systems for passenger vehicles.

The paper uses VERSES AI’s algorithms to predict the appearance of pedestrians, cyclists, and cars that are obscured behind stationary vehicles.

A&K Robotics is testing its connected robotic pods in airports as part of its strategy to expand mobility worldwide.