Starsky Robotics

Starsky Robotics (also known as Starsky) is a company in the autonomous truck market. It provides a system that enables trucks to drive without a person in the vehicle. The company's stated goal is to make roads safer while giving drivers work closer to their homes and families.

Starsky Robotics’ system focuses on the issue of final-mile delivery by removing drivers from the cab entirely and putting them in an office where they can remotely operate the truck from terminal to delivery.

The company was founded by Stefan Seltz-Axmacher and Kartik Tiwari in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, US. It was officially launched in August 2016, and began moving freight on the highway in February 2017. In February 2018, Starsky drove a truck fully unmanned for seven miles on the highway in Florida and became the first company to publicly test an empty cabin for autonomous trucks.

In February 2018, Starsky completed a 7-mile fully driverless trip in Florida without a single human in the truck

Starsky Robotics has tested a fully unmanned truck in Florida, and the team is developing fully autonomous commercial trucks.

Starsky has raised $21.7 million to date. Shasta Ventures, Y Combinator, Trucks.vc, 9Point Ventures, Fifty Years and others have invested in various rounds of funding.

In 2017, Starsky Robotics announced that it had raised over $5 million from Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Trucks VC, and Data Collective to create an autonomous trucking company.

In 2018, company closed a $16.5 million Series A, led by Shasta Ventures.

Starsky Robotics has been covered in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired,

Bloomberg, CNN, The Wallstreet Journal, Fortune, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider and other publications.