A fully autonomous ride-hailing service operating without a human driver in defined service areas.
Autonomous Systems
Systems that operate vehicles, drones, infrastructure, or workflows with bounded human supervision.
v0.1 inclusion rule
Must perform a meaningful operating loop without continuous manual control and disclose its operating boundary.
An enterprise autonomous drone with onboard AI, 360-degree obstacle avoidance, and remote operation options.
A purpose-built robotaxi without a steering wheel, carrying paying riders in Las Vegas and free test riders in other cities.
Baidu's robotaxi service, giving fully driverless rides to the public in China and paid driverless rides in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Pony.ai's robotaxi service, carrying fare-paying riders with no driver in China's four largest cities and opening to the public in Singapore, Croatia, Qatar and South Korea.
Aurora's self-driving system for heavy trucks, hauling customer freight on Texas highways with no one behind the wheel.
Tesla's ride-hailing service in Texas and Florida, mixing cars with nobody in the driver's seat and cars with a safety monitor; Bay Area rides have a safety driver.
Highly automated delivery drones that fly Walmart orders from the store, hover over the customer's address and lower the package on a tether.
A home-delivery drone that flies itself to the customer and lowers a small tethered droid, the Zip, to set the order on a doorstep or patio table.
Amazon's delivery drone, which flies orders of up to 5 pounds to customers' homes and uses an onboard detect-and-avoid system to steer around aircraft and obstacles.
A weatherproof drone-in-a-box that launches, recovers and charges its drone so it can fly automated routes and remote missions around the clock without anyone on site.
A palm-sized camera drone that flies itself without a controller, following and filming its owner in preset flight modes and landing back on the palm.