Robotaxis

Revel and Voltera target the charging layer robotaxis will need

Revel and Voltera are not just announcing more chargers; they are trying to give the US robotaxi economy its own energy layer.

Waymo’s Ojai test asks whether robotaxis can become everyday infrastructure

Waymo is starting selected rider trips in its new Ojai robotaxi, the first vehicle using its sixth-generation Driver hardware.

Tesla’s robotaxi is losing the momentum race to batteries, wind and solar

The interesting part is not simply that robotaxi is lagging, but that capital, manufacturing focus, and energy data are moving more clearly toward batteries, wind, and solar.

Tesla Robotaxi is down to 20 active cars, cooling the story of rapid scale-up

Tesla’s Robotaxi program is showing contraction rather than expansion: according to new data reported by Electrek, the active unsupervised fleet has fallen to just 20 vehicles.

Nuro wants the robotaxi second wave after Waymo paid for the hard lessons

Nuro is not pretending to be ahead of Waymo; its sharper argument is that the robotaxi market may only now be mature enough for a disciplined second mover.

Tesla FSD reaches Lithuania, but Europe is still approving it country by country

Tesla has secured its second European green light for FSD, but the real test is not the software; it is Europe’s regulatory map being assembled country by country.

Einride Is Already Running L4 Trucks While Tesla Promises FSD Again

Autonomous driving is no longer measured only by presentation promises, but by who is actually putting driverless vehicles into revenue work.

XPeng’s LiDAR-free robotaxi is leaving the demo phase for the harder fleet test

XPeng says China’s first mass-produced, in-house robotaxi has left the factory with four Turing AI chips and no LiDAR.

Tesla’s robotaxi test is moving from demo rides to crash paperwork

Tesla has unredacted narratives for 17 ADS crashes from Robotaxi testing in Austin, and the important details are less spectacular than operationally uncomfortable.

Waymo’s robotaxi test has moved from the road to the balance sheet

Waymo has expanded its robotaxi service to more than 1,400 square miles, moving past the pure demo phase.

A flooded road exposed the test Waymo’s robotaxis still have to pass

Waymo’s first major recall affects 3,791 robotaxis after a vehicle misjudged a flooded San Antonio road, forcing an OTA software fix.

Tesla earned a safety signal, not a self-driving certificate

NHTSA said the later-release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass the new ADAS criteria in NCAP.

Robotaxis have a mundane bottleneck: someone still has to plug them in

Rocsys M1 uses an overhead robotic arm to charge up to 10 robotaxi depot bays.

Waymo’s robotaxi boom is becoming a city-infrastructure test

Waymo is running 500,000 paid rides a week while first responders report blocked responses and behavioral backsliding.

A robotaxi with no front end shows why autonomy needs a different body

Zoox places sensor pods on the four upper corners of its robotaxi to give the vehicle an unobstructed view around the body.

Tesla’s autonomy promise now depends on a chip millions of cars do not have

Tesla has confirmed that HW3 vehicles will not receive unsupervised FSD, drawing a hard line under the old narrative that software would carry everyone forward.

WeRide’s 2,000 robotaxis will test what demo rides cannot prove

WeRide and Geely Farizon want to deliver 2,000 upgraded Robotaxi GXR vehicles in 2026, and the real test will be production, permits, and reliable service across multiple cities.

Uber's Self-Driving Vans Hit LA

Uber's self-driving vans are hitting the streets of LA, marking a significant step forward in the company's collaboration with Volkswagen on autonomous technology.

Waymo Robotaxis Hit Nashville

With 11 cities now under its belt, Waymo's commercial robotaxi services are gaining momentum, and the company's partnership with Lyft in Nashville is a key factor in this growth.

Robotaxi remote interventions: The transparency black box

Senator Ed Markey’s investigation into Cruise, Waymo, and Zoox reveals a critical omission: not one robotaxi company will disclose how often human operators intervene to prevent failures.

Tesla is clearing its luxury EV era for robotaxis and humanoid robots

Tesla’s Fremont factory will halt Model S and X production after fulfilling its final inventory of fewer than 500 vehicles.

Mercedes’ Steer-by-Wire Gambit: A Yoke to Nowhere?

The refreshed EQS sedan will debut Mercedes’ first steer-by-wire system—and a controversial yoke steering wheel—later this year.

Cy-trust gives trust a number, but reality still gets a vote

Harvard researchers propose an algorithm that lets autonomous vehicles and robots judge each other's reliability, but without actual consciousness.

Baidu robotaxis grounded: China’s traffic chaos exposes real-world limits

Baidu’s fleet of 500+ autonomous taxis turned into static obstacles in Wuhan after a system-wide failure.

Baidu’s robotaxis freeze in Wuhan’s real-world test

Wuhan police logged multiple 911 calls about Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis locking up mid-route, stranding passengers in a gridlock that even human drivers couldn’t untangle.

Tesla’s Robotaxis: Remote Humans at the Wheel Below 10 MPH

Dubai is testing the harder robotaxi question: can driverless cars run as a city service?

The story is not an orbit metaphor; it is a city operations test with an empty driver's seat.

Waymo at the Airport: Robotaxis Beyond Demo Mode

Waymo added San Antonio Airport as its fourth airport, but access remains tightly limited.

Zoox’s robotaxis hit the road—but real miles reveal real limits

Zoox’s robotaxis now operate in two new US cities, but the company’s silence on scale and performance metrics speaks louder than its press releases.

Waymo vs Apollo Go: The robotaxi reality behind the demo

Basler and Orbbec’s Stereo mini targets logistics robots, but its real test begins where demo videos end.

A small French beverage firm has turned Tesla’s robotaxi name into a legal fight

The UAE’s cabinet includes a minister of AI—now it wants half of government work done autonomously.

Tokyo will test whether robotaxis can scale without a perfect city map

New modeling of Sun-like stars suggests magnetic fields can block a long-predicted reversal in their rotation pattern.