Alphabet's Waymo secures $16B funding to accelerate autonomous vehicle expansion to Tokyo, London, and 20+ cities with 400K weekly rides.

Seattle-based Overland AI secures $100M led by 8VC to scale ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicles for U.S. military off-road operations.

Seattle-based Overland AI secured $100 million in Series B funding led by 8VC to meet surging demand for its ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicles used by the US military. The company's technology enables off-road autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments for dangerous combat engineering missions.

Alphabet's Waymo secures $16 billion in funding at $126 billion valuation to expand robotaxi operations to over 20 cities globally including London and Tokyo.

Major AI funding wave sees Waabi secure $1B for autonomous trucking, Decagon triple to $4.5B valuation, and PaleBlueDot AI reach unicorn status at $1B+.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the 'ChatGPT moment' for physical AI has arrived, unveiling the company's Alpamayo technology for autonomous vehicles at CES 2026. Huang predicts that robotaxis will be among the first to benefit from AI models that enable ubiquitous driverless cars, targeting a projected $13.6 trillion market by 2030.

Autonomous vehicle startup Waabi secures $1 billion funding with $750M Series C and $250M from Uber to deploy 25,000+ robotaxis on the ride-hailing platform.

Stanford's QuantiPhy benchmark demonstrates that current AI models struggle with basic physics reasoning, unable to accurately estimate speed, distance, and object sizes—a major roadblock for autonomous systems and robotics development.