Aurora details new financial path, lidar-related breakthrough

Aurora Innovation has integrated the optical components of its FirstLight lidar sensors into a series of semiconductor chips, a move that paves the way to mass-produce lidar for the company’s self-driving truck fleet in the years ahead. (MARK SANDHOFF)

July 19, 2023 01:20 PM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Aurora Innovation continues to chip away at the financial and technical mileposts needed to launch and grow its self-driving trucking business.

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