Tesla ranks 48 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 83; Waabi ranks 55 with 82. Tesla is ahead on production. Waabi is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. Tesla is based in Austin, United States, Waabi in Toronto, Canada. Tesla: Public. Tesla is named in 750 signals and Waabi in 19.
Tesla builds and deploys autonomous Cybercab robotaxis and operates driverless vehicle trials on public roads.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Tesla makes the Optimus humanoid, a household-to-factory ambition backed by massive capital. It is an essential name in the category (detailed research pending).
750 signals name Tesla.
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Waabi builds autonomous-driving systems through Waabi Driver and is developing and deploying Level 4 autonomous trucks and robotaxis with partners including Uber, Volvo and Aurora.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Waabi is the clearest AV2.0 bet in this batch. Its Physical AI Platform pairs a verifiable end-to-end AI model with an advanced neural simulator so a single model powers both autonomous trucks and robotaxis, the basis of its capital-efficiency argument. Raquel Urtasun founded it in 2021 after serving as chief scientist at Uber ATG, the unit Uber sold to Aurora in 2020, so the January 2026 Uber deal is a reunion. That deal is the defining event: a USD 750 million Series C co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners, plus roughly USD 250 million in milestone-based capital from Uber to deploy 25,000 or more Waabi Driver-powered robotaxis exclusively on the Uber platform, for total available capital of USD 1 billion and the largest tech fundraise in Canadian history. On trucks, Waabi partners with Volvo Autonomous Solutions, which builds the VNL Autonomous at its Virginia facility with Waabi sensors, compute and driver. The weakness is deployment: commercial pilots in Texas still carry safety drivers, the first closed-course driverless run came in October 2025, and the planned end-2025 driverless public-highway launch slipped by several quarters, attributed to validating the trucks rather than the driver.
19 signals name Waabi.
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Tesla ranks 48 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 83; Waabi ranks 55 with 82. Tesla is ahead on production. Waabi is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. Tesla is based in Austin, United States, Waabi in Toronto, Canada. Tesla: Public. Tesla is named in 750 signals and Waabi in 19.
Tesla ranks 48 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 83; Waabi ranks 55 with 82. Tesla is ahead on production. Waabi is ahead on positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, firepower and leverage. Tesla is based in Austin, United States, Waabi in Toronto, Canada. Tesla: Public. Tesla is named in 750 signals and Waabi in 19. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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