Waabi’s self-driving trucks are hauling paying customer freight in Texas, on the Dallas–Houston corridor, but with a human observer in the driver’s seat. Waabi has run trucks with no one on board only on a closed test track near Phoenix, in October 2025. Its customers include Warp (through Volvo Autonomous Solutions) and Warrior Logistics. Separately, Waabi raised a $750 million Series C in January 2026 and agreed to build robotaxis exclusively for Uber, with a target of 25,000 or more vehicles over time. Details below come from Waabi’s own announcements and Volvo’s, checked October 19, 2026.
Where Waabi trucks run today
All of Waabi’s announced commercial operations are on one lane: Dallas to Houston on I-45 in Texas.
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Warp (since October 5, 2026): a Volvo VNL Autonomous truck running the Waabi Driver hauls freight for Warp, a less-than-truckload and full-truckload network whose customers include Walmart, DoorDash and Gopuff. It delivers directly to third-party facilities rather than handing trailers off at a terminal. The joint announcement states that the hauls currently run with an observer in the driver’s seat.
- Warrior Logistics (announced October 14, 2026): an asset-based carrier that added a fleet of Waabi trucks to its network earlier in 2026 for recurring food, beverage and consumer goods loads. Waabi’s announcement reports 100% on-time pickup and delivery and zero safety incidents so far, and says Dallas–Houston load volume grew more than 80% this year. Waabi didn’t give truck counts or mileage.
- Uber Freight: Waabi’s first commercial partner, hauling loads on the same corridor since 2023 with a safety driver, according to earlier announcements.
In September 2026 Waabi also said its system drove a new lane on I-35 without lane-specific retraining. That is a test result, not a new commercial route.
Why there’s still a human in the cab
Waabi originally aimed to launch fully driverless trucks in 2025. As of October 2026 it hasn’t, on public roads. Its December 2025 update explains the gap:
- In October 2025, Waabi completed missions with no human on board on a closed course at its Phoenix test track.
- For those runs, Waabi added its own backup power, computing, steering and braking to a small development fleet, because the factory-redundant platforms it plans to use, like the Volvo VNL Autonomous, “have not received all necessary approvals and validation for driverless deployment yet.”
- It built onboard fault monitoring that takes over the safety role a human would play, plus a remote app that can assign routes but doesn’t steer the truck in real time.
Waabi hasn’t published a date for removing the observer on public roads. Two rivals are further along: Aurora already runs commercial trucks in Texas without a driver at the wheel, and Kodiak runs driverless trucks on private roads in the Permian Basin. See our Aurora and Kodiak guides.
How Waabi’s approach differs
Waabi, founded in 2021 in Toronto by Raquel Urtasun, uses one end-to-end AI model, the Waabi Driver, trained mostly in its own neural simulator, Waabi World, rather than large real-world test fleets. Waabi says the same model drives both on highways and on surface streets, which is why it can deliver straight to a customer’s dock instead of switching to a human driver at a highway-side terminal. It also says the model moved from its own trucks to the Volvo platform without retraining (June 2026). These are Waabi’s claims; no independent safety data has been published.
The Volvo VNL Autonomous is built by Volvo with backups for six safety-critical systems. Volvo sells it as part of its Autona freight service, so a carrier doesn’t buy Waabi software on its own. Volvo also pairs the same truck with Aurora’s driver on other Texas runs.
Funding and the Uber robotaxi plan
On January 28, 2026, Waabi announced:
- A $750 million Series C co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners, with Uber, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche SE, BlackRock-managed funds and Canadian investors among others.
- An additional milestone-based investment from Uber, bringing the announcement to about $1 billion. The milestone portion depends on Waabi hitting targets.
- An exclusive partnership to put Waabi Driver robotaxis on the Uber app, with “25,000 or more” vehicles over time.
Waabi has not named a robotaxi city, vehicle or launch date. You can’t ride in a Waabi robotaxi in October 2026. Uber’s current robotaxi partners in US cities are covered in our Avride and Motional guides.
If you’re a carrier or shipper
There’s no public price list. Carriers on the Dallas–Houston lane can reach Waabi through info@waabi.ai or go through Volvo Autonomous Solutions’ Autona freight offering. Expect a pilot on a set lane, not an open-ended service across Texas; both Waabi and Volvo say new routes will come from experience on the current corridor.