TORONTO, Oct. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Waabi, the leader in physical AI, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions have reached a major milestone in autonomous trucking by successfully integrating the Waabi Driver with the Volvo VNL Autonomous. This joint achievement underscores the significant progress both companies are making together in advancing autonomous freight.
“The future of autonomous trucking hinges on three critical areas: autonomous technology that is safe, scalable, and can deliver on customer needs; hardware that is purpose-built for autonomous operations from the ground up; and a commercial deployment model that solves problems in the supply chain without added friction,” said Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO of Waabi. “Together with Volvo, we are leading autonomous trucking forward. The Volvo VNL Autonomous, powered by the Waabi Driver, is the next step in ushering in a stronger, safer, and more efficient era in transportation.”
The successful integration of the Volvo VNL Autonomous and Waabi Driver marks a significant milestone in the longstanding relationship and strategic partnership between Waabi and Volvo Autonomous Solutions to accelerate the development and adoption of autonomous trucks. With this integration complete, both companies are now focused on delivering an autonomous solution that is safe and supports broad commercial deployment.
“Partnerships like the one between Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi play an important role not only in advancing autonomous technology, but also in building the broader ecosystem required to support commercial deployment,” said Nils Jaeger, President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions. “Autonomy has the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in the transport industry, including safety, efficiency, and capacity. By working together, we are laying the groundwork for a more resilient future for freight.”
The joint solution combines Waabi’s industry leading self-driving technology with Volvo’s autonomous truck, designed with redundant systems to enable safe autonomous operations:
- The Waabi Driver is the only interpretable and verifiable end-to-end AI model that is capable of true generalization, enabling it to safely and quickly scale autonomous driving across different geographies, including highways and general surface streets. This enables commercial operations that are scalable, meet the needs of customers, and work within existing logistics operations.
- The Volvo VNL Autonomous is a truck purpose built for autonomy with redundancies or back-up systems for safety critical functions such as braking, steering and communication.
By pairing Waabi’s powerful breakthroughs in physical AI with Volvo’s leadership in autonomous trucks, the two companies are developing autonomous solutions primed to meet the freight industry’s needs now and in the future.
More information about Waabi’s partnership with Volvo is available here.
About Waabi
Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is pioneering physical AI, first by applying this technology to overhaul the autonomous trucking industry. Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, AI, automotive, logistics and Canadian innovation ecosystems, including Khosla Ventures, Uber, NVIDIA, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Scania Invest, Ingka Investments, HarbourVest Partners, BDC, EDC, Radical Ventures, Incharge Capital, and others.
About Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.)
The autonomous transport solution offered by Volvo Autonomous Solutions includes a vehicle purpose-built for autonomous driving, a virtual driver, required infrastructure, operations, and uptime support as well as a cloud solution that controls the transport system and manages logistics flows. The solutions developed by V.A.S. are tailor-made for each customers’ needs and intended to make their operations safer, productive, and sustainable.
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