The autonomous car area is beginning to really feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the expertise wars and capital are heating up the identical approach they did the primary time round. The cash’s flowing again, and it’s the individuals who lived via that first wave who’re constructing the subsequent one.
Humble Robotics founder and CEO Eyal Cohen is one among them. Cohen was at Otto when Uber got here calling, later adopted Anthony Levandowski to Pronto, and after 20 years bouncing between deep tech bets within the Bay Space, his new firm got here out of stealth in April with $24 million to construct a completely autonomous, cabless electrical hauler for freight.
Cohen joins Kirsten Korosec on this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast to speak about AV déjà vu and what he’s discovered from 15 years of constructing startups throughout electrification, photo voltaic, and robotics.
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