Wisk Aero vs Waabi
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Boeing and Kitty Hawk joint venture developing autonomous eVTOL air taxi; Cora aircraft targeting FAA certification for pilotless passenger transport; 1,700+ test flights completed.
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Wisk Aero is an autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi company founded as a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation, which was backed by Google co-founder Larry Page. The company is developing the Cora air taxi, a self-flying eVTOL vehicle designed to carry passengers autonomously without requiring an onboard pilot, which would dramatically lower operating costs compared to piloted air taxis. Wisk has flown over 1,700 test flights and is pursuing FAA certification for its autonomous aircraft under the Agency's emerging framework for novel air mobility vehicles. The company operates in New Zealand where it has conducted extensive public flight testing in partnership with the government. Wisk raised hundreds of millions in investment from Boeing and has the backing to pursue the lengthy FAA certification process required for commercial autonomous aviation operations. The company's autonomous-first approach means it is targeting a different regulatory pathway and potentially different timeline than piloted eVTOL competitors like Joby Aviation and Archer.
$1B round in Jan 2026 ($750M Series C + $250M from Uber). Expanding from autonomous trucking into robotaxis via Uber partnership. Volvo VNL Autonomous launch.
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Waabi is a Toronto, Ontario-based autonomous trucking company — having raised over $280 million including a $200 million Series B in June 2024 led by Uber and Khosla Ventures — developing the Waabi Driver, an end-to-end generative AI system that operates Class 8 trucks without human safety drivers using a single interpretable neural network rather than the rule-based stacks used by competitors. Founded in 2021 by CEO Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto professor, former Chief Scientist of Uber ATG, and endorsed by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton), Waabi has partnered with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to produce the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck — featuring Waabi's AI driver integrated with six redundant safety systems and manufactured at Volvo's New River Valley plant in Virginia. Waabi runs autonomous freight shipments for Fortune 500 companies through its Uber Freight partnership in Texas, and has demonstrated complete autonomous driving capability across highways and general surface streets with driverless commercial operations targeting 2025.
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