Boxbot Announces $7.5 Million in Seed Funding for Self-Driving Delivery
Summary
Boxbot, a startup focused on self-driving delivery vehicles, announced today that it has raised a $7.5 million round of seed funding. Boxbot —co-founded in late 2016 by veteran engineers from Tesla and Uber— is working to address the last-mile problem in logistics, through a combination of robotics and autonomous systems. The Boxbot team has extensive experience working for some of the most prominent companies in the fields of autonomous systems, robotics, and logistics (including Tesla, Uber, Amazon, Getaround and Northrop Grumman, among others). While pursuing a PhD at UC Berkeley he developed machine learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles, built drones for the Office of Naval Research and competed in the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. After receiving his PhD, he founded a startup to make transportation networks more efficient with machine learning algorithms, before joining Uber in 2014.
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