Airwallex president Lucy Liu invokes a car metaphor to describe one of her company’s newest products. “It’s like assisted driving, like you have in a Tesla,” she says to describe T:0, an automated bookkeeping system that can run a company’s entire financial department on its own. “You still have someone in the driver’s seat, but
a decade ago, Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick said he viewed autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the transportation company’s business model. “What if we weren’t part of that future? If we weren’t part of autonomy? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider. In the years since then, Uber has opted for
Manna Aero, the Irish autonomous drone delivery startup, has been a smaller player in the United States. Founder and CEO Bobby Healy told TechCrunch that’s about to change. The startup, boosted by the $50 million in venture capital it raised in April, said Wednesday that it is establishing a U.S. operations and manufacturing center in
Forterra, a US autonomous vehicle manufacturer, revealed today that more than 100 of its autonomous all-terrain vehicles have been deployed to conflict zones in Ukraine over the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any US defense technology company. “I think this is