Waymo has enlisted Allianz Partners to build insurance, digital claims and safety-research infrastructure for its European robotaxi expansion, starting with London and Munich, as it scales beyond 500,000 weekly U.S. paid trips.
ALVEST Group has launched TLD Robotics, merging EasyMile, TractEasy and TLD's driverless operations into one autonomous GSE company with 35+ sites, 10 countries and 50,000+ completed missions.
May Mobility will go public through a business combination with ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., implying a $1.4 billion enterprise value and up to $337 million in gross proceeds ahead of a Nasdaq listing as MAY.
GAC AION has launched the 2027 AION i60, a five-seat BEV and REEV SUV running WeRide WRD 3.0, moving the eight-time competition-winning L2++ ADAS into mass production.
Waymo has opened fully autonomous rides to its first public riders in Las Vegas, covering the Strip from Boulder Junction to Sahara Avenue with a majority-Ojai fleet on the sixth-generation Waymo Driver.
Einride and Lidl in Germany have put a cab-less SAE Level 4 autonomous truck into daily operations on a public road, running warehouse-to-store deliveries with no driver on board under a first-of-its-kind KBA permit.
Pony.ai unveiled its Gen-4 L4 Robotruck built on GAC Commercial Vehicle's T9 battery-electric platform at IAA Transportation, with volume production scheduled to begin later this year for long-haul, dedicated-route and port freight.
BMW Maps with Driver Assistance launches in October 2026 on Operating System X vehicles, combining navigation, surroundings, and assistance data in one 3D view built with Mapbox map technology.
Hyundai Motor Group has put its autonomous driving Data Flywheel into full operation, pairing NVIDIA-based Level 2+ vehicles due in 2028 with proprietary Atria AI Level 2++ production targeted for 2029.
Volvo Cars has refreshed the XC40 with a new software and sensor platform, expanded Pilot Assist with lane change assist, a Door Opening Alert function, and a 3D 360 camera ahead of early-2027 deliveries.
Volkswagen is upgrading IQ.DRIVE on 2027 Atlas, Golf, ID. Buzz and Tiguan models with driver-initiated lane changes, an Emergency Assist Plus shoulder-stop function, a pedestrian-detecting rearview camera, and predictive ACC improvements.
American Rheinmetall secured a $7.28 million contract to deliver 12 Mission Master SP autonomous unmanned ground vehicles and five amphibious Marine Kits to the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, built on the PATH autonomy architecture.
Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless robotaxi test rides with passengers on a 13.7-mile Zagreb route, a European first, five months after launching the city's commercial service with an onboard operator.
WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain's first national Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicle permit, clearing mapping and testing of 20 GXR vehicles in Madrid ahead of a planned commercial launch by year-end.
Beep closed a Series B round led by Mobileye with existing investors participating, bringing total capital raised to about $130 million to expand its mobility-as-a-service offerings and AutonomOS platform.
AEye CEO Matt Fisch says lidar revenue grew roughly ninefold year over year and 25 customers now take paid shipments, as a NASA-backed Lunar Outpost contract and Alive3D deal open new verticals.
Lyft riders in central Nashville can now be matched with fully autonomous Waymo vehicles at no additional cost, the first market where Waymo runs on both the Waymo and Lyft apps.
Hirain and Arbe have been selected by a major automotive group for a multi-brand Level 3 passenger vehicle program in China, with series-production radar deliveries starting Q4 2027.
Inceptio Technology reports more than 1 billion kilometers of commercial autonomous trucking mileage, 97% highway coverage in China, and a new Freight Physical AI framework spanning model, scenario, and fleet intelligence.
Motional has open-sourced nuReasoning, a 20,000-scenario long-tail driving dataset with 247,000 human-verified reasoning annotations, and launched a companion research challenge with UCLA at ECCV.