This startup's self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding |

Bedrock Robotics has raised $600 million in a funding round that values the autonomous vehicle technology startup at $4.1 billion, marking a speedy ascent for…

Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) |

Car rental giant Turo will start advertising which Teslas on its marketplace are outfitted with the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) —…

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions |

EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn…

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world |

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the…

Mobility: A roadblock clears for self-driving trucks |

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To…

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal |

Gatik, the autonomous vehicle startup known for its self-driving box trucks, has raised $200 million just two months after striking a multiyear commercial agreement with…

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways |

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test their autonomous vehicle…

Uber partner Avride is under investigation for self-driving crashes |

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber, after identifying more than…

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies |

Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak…

A self-driving car in Texas hit and killed a mother duck, sparking neighborhood outrage |

2:19 PM PDT · April 8, 2026 The death of a duck in the Austin, Texas enclave of Mueller Lake has neighbors raising concerns about…