{"title":"AUMOVIO SE vs Waymo: Autonomous vehicles & driving compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/aumovio-se-vs-waymo","comparison":"Waymo ranks 7 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 94; AUMOVIO SE ranks 83 with 79. AUMOVIO SE is ahead on production and commercials. Waymo is ahead on deployment, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on leverage. AUMOVIO SE is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Waymo in Mountain View, United States. Waymo: Private, founded 2016. AUMOVIO SE is named in 7 signals and Waymo in 331.","companies":[{"name":"AUMOVIO SE","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/aumovio-se","city":"Frankfurt am Main","country":"Germany","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"AUMOVIO SE is the former Continental Automotive group sector, spun off from Continental AG and listed independently on 2025-09-18 with roughly 86,000 employees across more than 100 locations, organised into Autonomous & Mobility, Architecture & Connectivity, Safety & Dynamic Control and User Experience. Its autonomy relevance is concrete: it is the hardware partner to Aurora Innovation, alongside NVIDIA, for mass production of autonomous trucking systems from 2027, supplying sensors, automated driving control units, high-performance computers and telematics, with its New Braunfels, Texas plant designated for the Aurora Driver hardware and fallback system. That same plant produced around 13 million ADAS radars in roughly three years with fewer than 500 employees and is being more than doubled in floor space, so AUMOVIO sits in both mass-market ADAS sensing and low-volume high-assurance autonomous-trucking sensing from one line (scored here under the autonomy Systems placement; the Lidar and radar sensing franchise is the same company). H1 2026 adjusted sales fell 8.9 percent to EUR 8.6 billion with adjusted EBIT down 39.8 percent to EUR 157 million at a 1.8 percent margin, and the Autonomous & Mobility segment fell 12.7 percent to EUR 1.4 billion. A EUR 350 million BMW brake-system settlement on 2026-07-30 forced a profit guidance cut but came with more than EUR 1 billion of new BMW orders. The discovered Daimler Truck link could not be verified: Daimler Truck named autonomy p","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":83,"score":79,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":7,"firepower":8,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"AUMOVIO supplies hardware and software for assisted and automated driving, including hardware for driverless trucks, to vehicle manufacturers and commercial-mobility customers.","segment":"Autonomous vehicles & driving","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":7,"facts_total":18},{"name":"Waymo","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/waymo","city":"Mountain View","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":2016,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Waymo (Alphabet) is the US robotaxi leader with a fleet of ~3,000-4,000 vehicles over 1,400+ sq mi, running 500,000+ paid rides a week by March 2026 (10x in two years, across 11 cities) and 20M+ lifetime trips, targeting 1M rides a week by year-end. It raised $16B at a $126B valuation in February 2026, is expanding to London and Tokyo in 2026, and claims 90% fewer serious crashes. Revenue is undisclosed (estimated ~$500M annualized at ~$20 a ride).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":7,"score":94,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":6,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Waymo develops and operates autonomous robotaxis, including its own self-driving system and commercial fleets serving riders across multiple cities.","segment":"Autonomous vehicles & driving","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":331,"facts_total":148}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}