Applied Intuition
Mountain View, USA
Simulation and autonomy software infrastructure for machines that drive and fly.
Launched the Dana agentic platform for physical AI (July 24, 2026); reached roughly a $15B valuation in 2025.
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Best Autonomous Vehicles & Trucking companies
Self-driving cars, robotaxis, driverless trucking, and the autonomy software stacks behind them.
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Bot Auto
Houston, USA
Driverless trucking startup running humanless freight across Texas.
Site carries an update dated August 7, 2026; partnered with Ryan Transportation for humanless Dallas-Houston runs, driverless I-45 targeted spring 2026.
Gatik
Mountain View, USA
Driverless box trucks for repeatable middle-mile retail deliveries.
Announced a multi-year deal with PepsiCo to deploy driverless trucks across North America (June 2026), with trucks running at scale on public roads.
Helm.ai
Redwood City, USA
AI-first perception and autonomy software using unsupervised Deep Teaching.
Signed a multi-year ADAS joint-development deal with Honda (August 2025); Honda added a further investment (October 2025).
Kodiak AI
Mountain View, USA
Driverless-truck autonomy stack for commercial, industrial, and defense hauling.
Atlas Energy Solutions expanded its driverless Kodiak truck fleet in the Permian Basin (July 31, 2026); listed on Nasdaq as KDK in 2025.
Nuro
Mountain View, USA
AI-first autonomy stack (the Nuro Driver) licensed to automakers and fleets.
Raised a $106M Series E (April 2025) then a $203M extension with NVIDIA; unveiled a production-intent robotaxi with Lucid and Uber at CES (January 2026).
Oxa
Oxford, United Kingdom
Universal autonomy software retrofitting industrial vehicles for driverless work.
Closed the first $103M tranche of a Series D backed by the National Wealth Fund and NVIDIA (March 2026).
Stack AV
Pittsburgh, USA
SoftBank-backed autonomous trucking from the ex-Argo AI founders.
Unveiled its first autonomous Peterbilt 579 truck at ACT Expo in Las Vegas (May 2026) after years in stealth.
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Waabi
Toronto, Canada
Physical-AI platform for self-driving trucks built on simulation-first training.
Secured roughly $1B in new funding to lead the Physical AI push (January 2026); Volvo autonomous-truck demo at NVIDIA GTC (October 2025).
Wayve
London, United Kingdom
Embodied-AI self-driving software that learns to drive without HD maps.
Raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank (May 2024); site announces further scaling and a 2026 Uber/Nissan Tokyo robotaxi plan.