$28bn invested in freight tech start-ups since 2015 – most in last-mile and B2C
Venture capital funding into the logistics industry has amounted to nearly $28bn since 2015, research ...
A Bloomberg long read on Starsky Robotics, one of the best-named start-ups around. The company is working in the driverless trucks field, but rather than trying create a completely automated vehicle from scratch, it has “designed an artificial intelligence system for big-rig trucks that makes them mostly self-sufficient on highways and then, when it’s time to exit onto local roads, allows them to be taken over and driven from a remote centre. The plan is to eventually employ dozens of ...
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