Aurora Innovation

Aurora Innovation develops the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system designed first for long-haul Class 8 trucks. Founded in 2017 by Chris Urmson (former CTO of Google's self-driving program), Sterling Anderson (former head of Tesla Autopilot), and Drew Bagnell (former head of Uber's autonomy team), the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Aurora began regular driverless freight deliveries between Dallas and Houston in 2025 and, per its Q4 2025 results, expanded its driverless network to roughly ten routes across Texas and into Phoenix, working with partners including Volvo Autonomous Solutions, Hirschbach, and McLane. In Q1 2026 Aurora reported $1.0 million of revenue against a $223 million net loss, and it targets 200-plus driverless trucks and an $80 million revenue run-rate by the end of 2026, with Hirschbach stating intent to scale to 500 trucks under Aurora's Driver-as-a-Service model. The company went public in November 2021 via a SPAC merger with Reinvent Technology Partners Y and trades on Nasdaq as AUR.