This week Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company Amazon recently acquired, unveiled an autonomous electric vehicle that they supposedly plan to make available as part of a Robotaxi service. Conceptually, it’s fairly similar to the Cruise Origin, another AEV with a bidirectional design: There are a few things to like here. The idea of an autonomous-only […]
Remember that guy who co-founded Zoox and then got fired a year before they sold to Amazon? No? Well, he has a new self-driving startup that’s probably funded by that Bezos money he got out of Zoox’s exit. Early-stage HYPR, created by Zoox co-founder Tim Kentley Klay, says it’s using reinforcement learning, a branch of machine […]
It’s been a little over a month since we first heard Zoox needed cash and was up for sale, and that Amazon might be interested. Now just this evening, Amir Efrati at The Information broke the story that the deal is done, and could be announced as soon as Friday morning: Amazon has agreed to […]
