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Full-stack Teams and Cars
All these teams are attempting to build the “full stack” of a robocar or other autonomous outdoor vehicle. They may also be building some hardware components, or in a few cases, plan to build or have custom manufactured the vehicle.
Robotaxi
These teams probably plan to deploy a robotaxi service using their system, and possibly their car
Software Stack
These teams are building a fairly full self-driving stack, but it will go in a partner's or customer's car.
- Aurora – $2B valuation startup with founders including Chris Urmson
- Baidu – Chinese top search engine
- comma.ai – Open source project using neuralnetworks
- Drive.ai – well funded, but facing trouble
- AIMotive - Hungarian firm with simulator and autopilot
- Imagry – Attempting mapless driving
- TORC - Darpa Challenge competitors
- Naver – Korean search engine
- Oxbotica – from Oxford
- Blackberry QNX division
- ThorDrive – Korea / SV doing vans
- Helm.ai – Stealth SV company, raised $10M
Automakers
These automakers have active, mostly full-stack projects. (See Robotaxi section for automakers planning that business.)
Logistics
See the Delivery section for last-mile delivery on sidewalks and roads.
Trucking
These teams have a focus on long haul trucks and large vehicles
Tier One Suppliers
These companies are big suppliers and don't plan to build or operate vehicles, but are working on a system to sell to customers, or a reference implementation.
Shuttles
These teams are making shuttles or low-speed vehicles, rather than private taxis or private cars