#88 – Anne Schneider | RR.AI -from Autonomous Tactical Vehicles to Trucks, Buses & More

Anne Schneider is the Vice President of Autonomous Trucking at RR.AI | Robotic Research.

Key topics in this conversation include

  • What it takes to deliver an autonomous kit for military applications, assuming no comms, no prior data, and no infrastructure
  • Robotic Research’s Leader Follower program
  • RR.AI’s successful push into commercial applications, including forestry, mining, and various on-road applications
  • Why they decided now was the time to raise significant capital
  • Similarities and differences comparing autonomous trucks and autonomous tactical vehicles

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Anne’s Bio

Anne Schneider is the Vice President of Autonomous Trucking at RR.AI | Robotic Research.  With over twelve years of experience in robotic systems development, Ms. Schneider has extensive expertise in system/software architecture design, sensor processing, and systems integration.  During her tenure at Robotic Research, Ms. Schneider has worked as the Technical and/or Project Lead for a variety of government ground vehicle robotics programs, including the Autonomous Ground Resupply and Expedient Leader Follower programs, which rapidly produced and issued 60 Leader/Follower enabled autonomous trucks to soldiers for a multi-year Operational Technical Demonstration.  She is currently leading RR.AI’s push into the commercial autonomous trucking market.

About RR.AI
RR.AI is the commercial division of Robotic Research––a global technology company that has delivered autonomous mobility and robotics solutions for more than two decades. RR.AI’s vehicle-agnostic, full-stack autonomy kit (AutoDrive®) is a proven autonomous driving system for both on and off-highway environments and is trusted by industry-leading OEM partners. It is uniquely suited to provide an end-to-end, 360° autonomous driving solution for commercial transportation that spans across complex operational design domains (ODDs). 

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