iSee AI

iSee AI is an autonomous vehicle company founded in 2017 and spun out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, focused on developing AI-powered autonomous driving software for commercial vehicles in industrial environments. The company targets yard trucks and terminal tractors used in distribution centers, ports, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities for moving trailers and containers within the facility premises. These controlled industrial environments offer a more tractable autonomy challenge than public roads, with predictable layouts, restricted access, and lower speed requirements that make commercial deployment achievable sooner than consumer autonomy. iSee raised $26M and has deployed autonomous yard trucks at customer facilities, demonstrating real-world commercial operations. The company's cognitive AI architecture is designed to handle the variability and novel situations that arise in real industrial operations through machine learning rather than purely rule-based systems. iSee serves logistics operators, retailers, and manufacturers that want to automate the labor-intensive and injury-prone work of moving equipment around large distribution facilities.