Browsing: Waymo
Despite fears of drivers losing their jobs to robotaxis, Waymo’s boss says the company will still need humans to fill technician and operator roles
Advanced technology isn’t just automating tasks in the white collar world—AI agents and robots are flipping burgers, stocking warehouses, and…
February was the biggest month in venture history, thanks to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo
Global venture funding hit $189 billion in February—the largest startup investment figure ever recorded for a single month. But 83%…
Imagine trying to run an autonomous car through this traffic more than a century ago. Imagine now that there are…
Well, it’s happened. A robotaxi hit a kid near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California. It’s not the first…
Gatik, a Silicon Valley startup developing self-driving delivery trucks, says its commercial operations are about to scale up dramatically, from…
Waabi raises up to $1 billion and partners with Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis as the race to dominate self-driving heats up
Waabi, the Toronto-based AI company building software to enable autonomous driving, has raised $1 billion in new funding and struck…
Two recent stories are generating excitement that Tesla may be on the verge of having working self-driving. First was the…
Recently at the CES show in Las Vegas, I got a chance to ride in the Zoox Robotaxi. Zoox doesn’t…
Waymo chaos during San Francisco power outage likely due to ‘operational management failure’
Many of Waymo’s self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily…
Waymo’s driverless ride services were a high-profile victim of a power outage that affected large swaths of San Francisco, with…












