Waymo Raises $16 Billion to Scale Robotaxi Operations Globally
Waymo has secured $16 billion in new funding to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service, accelerate fleet deployment, and support international launches in Europe and Asia.
Vehicles capable of navigating roads and traffic without continuous human control rely on advanced combinations of artificial intelligence, sensors, and software systems. This topic covers technologies such as perception, sensor fusion, mapping, planning, and real-time decision-making used to enable different levels of driving automation. It also explores safety validation, regulatory frameworks, human handoff, and real-world deployment challenges across consumer and commercial use cases. Self-driving cars remain one of the most visible and complex applications of AI in the physical world. Their development highlights both the potential and the limitations of large-scale autonomy in open environments.
Waymo has secured $16 billion in new funding to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service, accelerate fleet deployment, and support international launches in Europe and Asia.
Kodiak has entered a strategic agreement with Bosch to scale production-grade autonomous trucking hardware, aiming to accelerate commercial deployment of driverless trucks.