Waabi announces ‘plug-and-play’ autonomous trucking solution
Waabi, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by former chief scientist at Uber’s Advanced Technology Group Raquel Urtasun, announced a new turnkey solution for semi truck manufacturers who want to transform their big rigs into robot trucks.
The product, which is called Waabi Driver, is intended as a full-stack autonomy solution for semi truck OEMs to integrate into their vehicles during the manufacturing process. “It’s very plug-and-play, very sleek, and you know, very lightweight,” Urtasun said in an interview last week, “so that it can be built or directly integrated into the assembly line for OEM integration.”
When it first launched last year, Urtasun said that Waabi’s approach will be to focus on trucking using its proprietary...