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'Humanless' Bot Auto Truck [Photo: Bot Auto TX, Inc.]
Houston’s Bot Auto Partners With Ryan on ‘Humanless’ Freight Runs Between Dallas and Houston
by David Seeley | Feb 25, 2026
Founded in 2023 by the co-founder and former CTO of TuSimple, Bot Auto will soon be adding to a growing array of "trucker-out" 18-wheeler operations flowing in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth. Its competitors operating in North Texas include Aurora, Gatik, Torc Robotics, Kodiak Robotics, Waabi, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions.
by David Seeley |
Feb 24, 2026
Beginning today, "select riders" who have downloaded the Waymo app will receive an invitation to take their first local robotaxi rides in Dallas. Competitors include Uber and Avride, who launched their own Dallas robotaxi service in December (but with a safety driver aboard for now). Lyft plans its own Dallas robotaxi service later this year.
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![At Google’s Midlothian data center on Nov. 14, Google executives joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other government leaders to announce the company’s $40 billion Texas investment. [Photo: Google]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Platform-panel_47A1634_970_google-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Nov 16, 2025
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was in North Texas on Friday to announce the tech giant’s largest investment in a single state. The multiyear plan will add three Texas data center campuses, increase energy supply to the state’s grid, and train 1,700 electricians as the AI economy scales.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 23, 2025
As Austin-based Avride ramps up testing of its robotaxis in Dallas for a planned late-2025 launch, Uber and the Nebius Group have infused the company with $375 million and "commercial commitments." Competition looms in 2026, however—both Waymo and Lyft are planning Dallas robotaxi services of their own.
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TIME’s 2025 covers feature star power—with Ryan Reynolds of Maximum Effort and Waymo’s co-CEOs front and center. But the list also includes standout innovation coming straight out of Dallas.
Two Dallas Companies Land on TIME100 Most Influential—Alongside the World’s Biggest Brands
by Quincy Preston | Jun 26, 2025
While TIME put Maximum Effort and Waymo on its 2025 worldwide covers, Dallas future-shaping companies are in the mix. Two are Dallas-based. Another Texas company—now a $2B brand—got its start here, too.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 11, 2022
Waymo, the self-driving truck unit from Google parent Alphabet Inc., has hauled over 1 million pounds of Modelo and Corona beer from Dallas to Houston in autonomously driven trucks, reports David Welch of Bloomberg News.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 6, 2022
Waymo's new hub—built from the ground up—is a $10 million investment in Lancaster that will bring "hundreds of jobs" to the community, a Waymo exec announced at its opening last week.
"This operation and Waymo's investment in the region further cements Dallas-Fort Worth as the home to autonomous vehicles in the U.S.," added Duane Dankesreiter, SVP for research and innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.
"This operation and Waymo's investment in the region further cements Dallas-Fort Worth as the home to autonomous vehicles in the U.S.," added Duane Dankesreiter, SVP for research and innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 14, 2022
The expanded collaboration will lead to multiple pilot tests of robotically driven freight on I-45 between Fort Worth and Houston "in the same lane" as those conducted in 2021. The two companies plan "to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years."
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