Pony AI Inc.2026
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Pony.ai's affiliate forms JV with Sinotrans, expanding AI logistics business and creating new demand for its autonomous driving technology.
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Sinotrans Ltd Class A601598
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Sinotrans enters JV with Pony.ai to develop AI logistics, potentially improving efficiency and creating new revenue streams.
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青骓物流科技有限公司Private▲ Positive
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Qingzhui Logistics Technology establishes subsidiary to expand AI-related businesses, indicating growth in its logistics AI operations.
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Coco Robotics and Deliveroo Launch Exclusive UK Robot Delivery Partnership
Coco Robotics and Deliveroo have announced an exclusive partnership to bring autonomous robot deliveries to towns and cities across the UK, marking Coco's UK debut and Deliveroo's first use of autonomous delivery vehicles in the country. The rollout begins in London's Canary Wharf this October, followed by Milton Keynes, Leeds, Stockton on Tees and Nottingham in the coming weeks and months. Consumers will initially order from merchants including Patty&Bun, Signorelli and Beam in Wood Wharf, with the service area later expanding to Ole & Steen, Royal China and Din Tai Fung, while Milton Keynes will include Smoke and Pepper among others. The multi-city rollout extends Coco's broader expansion across Europe and will be backed by local investment in UK operational infrastructure, creating new skilled jobs in operations, maintenance and logistics supported by new depot and charging facilities. The partnership builds on Coco's existing collaborations with DoorDash and Wolt across cities including Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C. and Helsinki, and Coco is also in discussions with other councils across London and the UK.
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Coco Robotics · Demand · Positive Coco Robotics enters the UK market through an exclusive multi-city partnership with Deliveroo, extending its robot delivery footprint in Europe.
Deliveroo plc · Demand · Positive Deliveroo launches its first UK autonomous robot delivery service via exclusive partnership with Coco Robotics, expanding its delivery offering across multiple UK cities.
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Kodiak AI Taps IKEA Supply as First Driverless Freight Customer
Kodiak AI plans to make IKEA Supply its first customer for driverless long-haul freight service by the end of this year. The planned launch would remove the safety observer from the cab on a 219-mile leg, primarily along Interstate 45 between Kodiak's Houston and Dallas-area facilities, a key segment of an existing 292-mile route from IKEA's Baytown distribution center to its Frisco store. The announcement builds on four years of supervised autonomous deliveries for IKEA, during which Kodiak says it has carried more than 1,300 loads and logged over 750K miles with a safety observer aboard. Kodiak began its long-haul launch program in August and said its trucks now complete runs between Lancaster, Texas, and Houston without the observer intervening, though the company must finish its highway safety case before removing the observer. Kodiak AI was founded in 2018 and developed the Kodiak Driver, an autonomous-driving system for trucks and other vehicles; the Mountain View, California-based company went public on September 25, 2025, when its shares began trading on Nasdaq following a SPAC transaction with Ares Acquisition Corporation II. Shares of Kodiak AI were up 1.8% in premarket trading after peeling off 13.0% on Thursday.
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KDK · Demand · Positive IKEA Supply becomes Kodiak's first driverless long-haul freight customer, a concrete commercial order for its autonomous trucking service
IKEA Supply AG · Supply · Positive IKEA Supply gains an autonomous freight option on its Baytown-to-Frisco route, improving its logistics capacity
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Daimler Truck Targets Driverless Public-Road Run by Year-End
Daimler Truck is betting on owning the entire autonomous trucking system, with its Torc Robotics subsidiary aiming to run trucks on public roads with no safety driver in the cab before the end of the year. CEO Karin Rådström said at Daimler Truck's Media Night, ahead of IAA Transportation 2026, that the setup differentiates the company from any other player in the industry, spanning the truck platform and vehicle architecture, hardware integration and autonomous driving software. Daimler Truck North America builds the autonomous-ready chassis with redundancy in steering and braking, while Torc develops the AI-driven system covering perception, planning and driving. First commercial freight operations are planned for 2027, with scaling to begin in 2028, starting on long-haul lanes in North America, where Rådström said trucks travel more than twice the daily distance of European trucks and driver shortages are even more difficult. Torc previously completed driver-out validation in November 2024 on a multi-lane closed course in Texas at speeds up to 65 mph. With Freightliner, Rådström said the company is the clear number one in North American heavy-duty trucks; its Freightliner and Western Star brands held 37.8% of the North American Class 8 market through June, according to Daimler Truck's second-quarter investor presentation, and more than 1 million Cascadias have been sold in the U.S. since the model's 2007 introduction.
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DTG.XETRA · Technology · Positive Daimler Truck's Torc Robotics unit targets driverless public-road runs by year-end, with commercial freight in 2027, advancing its autonomous trucking system.
Torc Robotics · Technology · Positive Torc Robotics is developing the AI-driven autonomous driving software and aims to run driverless trucks on public roads before year-end.
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Serve Robotics Cuts 2026 Revenue Outlook to $9-$10 Million
Serve Robotics Inc. lowered its 2026 revenue outlook to $9-$10 million from $26 million, citing declining second-quarter delivery revenues and the removal of a substantial second-half increase in Uber delivery volumes assumed in earlier guidance. The company attributed the Uber volume decline largely to differences in fleet coordination, merchant integration and the operating model, while customer and merchant demand remained steady. To align spending with the revised plan, Serve Robotics cut its 2026 non-GAAP operating expense guidance to $140-$150 million from $160-$170 million and planned capital expenditures to approximately $15-$17 million from about $25 million, through headcount discipline, more efficient deployment infrastructure spending and tighter discretionary expenses. Total second-quarter revenues rose 9% sequentially to approximately $3.2 million as other channels more than offset lower delivery revenues, with DoorDash deliveries up nearly 50% sequentially and recurring revenues accounting for more than half of the total. Serve Robotics also said it expects software revenues to soften in the second half of 2026, and noted its shares have declined 60.2% over the past year compared with a 22.4% fall for the industry.
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SERV · Capital · Negative Serve Robotics cut its 2026 revenue outlook to $9-$10M from $26M on lower Uber delivery volumes
DASH · Demand · Positive DoorDash deliveries up nearly 50% sequentially, offsetting lower Serve delivery revenues
UBER · Demand · Negative Serve Robotics removed the substantial second-half increase in Uber delivery volumes from its guidance
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DoorDash Air Unveils Drone Delivery System, Pilot to Start in Northern California
DoorDash unveiled its purpose-built autonomous aircraft powered by DoorDash Air and outlined plans for an end-to-end drone delivery system designed to scale for all local businesses. Pilot drone deliveries will begin in Northern California in partnership with national restaurant brands including Chipotle Mexican Grill and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, along with local restaurant Momo N Curry. DoorDash said about 80% of today's typical restaurant orders are light and small enough for the aircraft to carry safely, and that initial tests showed delivery times from restaurant to consumer's door averaging under five minutes. The system runs on DoorDash's Autonomous Delivery Platform, the same platform coordinating Dashers, the Dot ground robot, and third-party autonomous delivery partners, and the company said it has already completed hundreds of thousands of lifetime autonomous deliveries. Harrison Shih, Head of DoorDash Air, said the team started with how local businesses actually operate rather than with the aircraft, building ground infrastructure, loading systems, packaging, and order data first.
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DASH · Technology · Positive DoorDash unveiled its purpose-built autonomous aircraft and end-to-end drone delivery system, with pilot deliveries starting in Northern California.
CMG · Demand · Positive Chipotle is named as a national restaurant brand partner in DoorDash Air's pilot drone delivery program, a new delivery channel for its orders.
QSR · Demand · Positive Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, owned by Restaurant Brands International, is named as a national restaurant brand partner in the DoorDash Air drone delivery pilot.
Momo N Curry · Demand · Positive Momo N Curry is named as a local restaurant partner participating in the DoorDash Air drone delivery pilot.
United StatesDoorDash Unveils Text Ordering, Drone Delivery and DashOS at Dash Forward 2026
DoorDash announced a slate of new products at its Dash Forward 2026 event, including text-based ordering, a custom drone delivery system called DoorDash Air, a restaurant growth platform called DashOS, and new AI tools for its delivery workers. U.S. consumers on iOS can join a waitlist starting today to try ordering by text in beta, an extension of the company's in-app Ask DoorDash assistant. DoorDash Air will pilot first in Northern California with partners including Chipotle and Popeyes, and the company says about 80% of today's typical DoorDash restaurant orders are light and small enough for the aircraft to carry safely, with initial tests showing delivery times from restaurant to customer door averaging under 5 minutes. The company is also bringing brands including Macy's, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans and Timberland to its marketplace, and said Dasher Returns, which charges consumers a flat $7.99 fee per eligible return, is live in select cities and expected to roll out nationwide in November. DashOS connects DoorDash's tools across Marketplace, direct ordering, reservations, loyalty, guest management and marketing, while the new DashBuddy assistant has already been used by over 200,000 Dashers and has resolved about 95% of questions from Dashers signing up or preparing for their first dash. DoorDash also introduced a connector for corporate ordering built on the Model Context Protocol, with companies able to join the beta waitlist starting September 30.
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DASH · Technology · Positive DoorDash unveiled new products including text ordering, DoorDash Air drone delivery, DashOS, and AI tools for Dashers.
DASH · Demand · Positive DoorDash is adding brands like Macy's, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans and Timberland to its marketplace, expanding merchant selection.