That was @KayleeNixWX of @BotAutoAV at our Urban Autonomy Summit in Austin, explaining where she sees the biggest opportunity for autonomy in trucking today. Watch the full panel here 👉 piped.video/MGpEwf_SfdY?si=lokV… Read the full recap 👉 thedriverlessdigest.com/p/au…

I’m super proud that @BotAutoAV has been selected to to support this @DIU_x project! lnkd.in/p/gnGAWJGk

Today we’re incredibly excited to announce our work with @DIU_x to bring the enormous safety and efficiency benefits of @BotAutoAV autonomy to the many needs on bases. Here’s to the future 🇺🇸 🚀

DIU has selected Fort Benning and Fort Hood as pilot locations for the next phase of the Robotic Operations for Autonomous Delivery and Sustainment (ROADS) prize challenge. Five companies are advancing to Phase III: @ForterraDefense / @May_Mobility , @AppliedInt, @perronerobotics, @Overland_AI_X / @Gatik_AI and @BotAutoAV were selected for further development and on base evaluations. ROADS will help establish the operational, safety, and installation processes required to move commercial autonomy from isolated demonstrations toward repeatable deployment across the @DeptofWar.

At Bot Auto, we deploy autonomy in a Transportation-as-a-Service strategy. We're the motor carrier. Brett Suma explains why this model works & why Driver-as-a-Service is not yet a scalable reality for AV trucking.

"If you have a safe response window for five seconds, you will never scale your business." Xiaodi Hou, CEO of @BotAutoAV, on the number he says matters most in driverless trucking. The most important number is the time it takes for a truck to handle things on its own before a human is guaranteed to step in. Bot Auto's window was one minute at AUTONOMOUS in July. Should the industry agree on a minimum and how much would this impact scale? He was joined by @torc_robotics, @anyscalecompute & @KodiakRobotics to discuss the race to driverless freight. Watch the full clip 👇

This team is doing amazing things: freightwaves.com/news/bot-au…

Brett Suma, President and COO of Bot Auto, breaks down the core driver behind the company's 270% revenue growth and ~350 monthly load volume scaling between May and August. Suma explains that scaling driverless technology demands total alignment around customer-aware execution and high asset utilization. Because autonomous Class 8 tractors represent high-value, high-capital assets, deploying them into low-value, non-revenue promotional demos or static trade show displays degrades asset economics.

Brett Suma, President and COO of Bot Auto, details the AI architecture and safety redundancy engineering behind their autonomous Class 8 trucks. Suma reveals that Bot Auto runs 100 million simulated miles every single day, applying a foundation AI model to an expansive world model. This massive synthetic simulation volume exposes the autonomous software to extreme edge cases and rare highway scenarios that driverless trucks would almost never encounter in physical road testing—allowing engineers to solve edge-case behaviors before software updates hit physical trucks.

Brett Suma, President and COO of Bot Auto, explains why the company deliberately waited before expanding its autonomous Class 8 fleet. Suma outlines a conservative capital allocation strategy: raising equity simply to purchase depreciating Class 8 tractors fitted with $350,000 Autonomous Driving System (ADS) stacks creates unsustainable capital dilution and negative operating margins.

Keep an eye out for President & COO Brett Suma, live on FreightWaves Today, in the next few minutes!

We’re very excited to announce our partnership to develop and deploy next-generation compute platforms for our @BotAutoAV autonomous trucks. This has been the key to unlocking scalability. 🔑 🤖

Major unlock for scaled AV trucks!

Great things happening at @BotAutoAV. lnkd.in/p/gy-7bQ2k

Excited to see @BotAutoAV select @Lenovo AD1, built on NVIDIA Hyperion, as the production compute platform for its Class 8 driverless trucks. With dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor and NVIDIA Halos at its core, the AD1 is built to scale driverless freight. Here’s to the long haul! 🚛

To scale autonomous trucking, you need reliable software AND sensible unit economics. Today, we’re excited to announce our use of @Lenovo’s L4 Autonomous Driving Domain Controller AD1 (built on @NVIDIA Hyperion) as our production compute platform for Class 8 driverless trucks. This changes the game for driverless freight making total hardware BOM (compute + sensors) targeted at $50,000/truck 3x-8x lower than industry benchmarks. Real scale requires production economics. Excited to build the future of freight with NVIDIA and Lenovo. bot.auto/media/bot-auto-sele…

T-minus 2 days until our fourth Urban Autonomy Summit, presented by @EmpiricEarth in Austin on October 14 🚗🚛 Our final panel, “From Long Haul to Last Mile: AVs Take on New Form Factors,” will be moderated by @axios Austin Reporter @nicolecobler, featuring: @ArmirHarris — CEO, @charter_up @dnueman — Vice President of Investor Relations, @PlusAI_Inc Evan O'Brien — Director of Enterprise Growth, @EmpiricEarth Kaylee Nix — Head of Communications, @BotAutoAV Autonomous tech is expanding across the entire logistics and transit spectrum—from long-haul trucking to middle-mile freight, shuttles, and last-mile delivery. This panel will explore where autonomy delivers the most value today, how to integrate AVs into existing transport networks, and what it takes to scale commercial operations. 🚚⚡️ See everyone on Wednesday, October 14!🎟️ RSVP to attend here 👉 luma.com/vwejx7uw

My thoughts on first responder interactions with autonomous trucks. @BotAutoAV lnkd.in/p/gT9ZmXYc

Bot Auto wholeheartedly supports and applauds the @FMCSA and Administrator Barrs for granting a 5-year exemption for cab-mounted warning beacons. This regulatory move allows us to keep operating safely, serve our customers, and innovate for the next generation of trucking.

At @BotAutoAV we’re always working to be safer and to protect our first responders. lnkd.in/p/ghgJ9_vt